From 5463deb15f648685bcd406f020af6e434c4ed28c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 09:11:00 -0400
Subject: GUC:  adjust effective_cache_size docs and SQL description

Clarify that effective_cache_size is both kernel buffers and shared
buffers.

Reported-by: nat@makarevitch.org

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153685164808.22334.15432535018443165207@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.3
---
 doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index c7c90d20e8e..f6a7bd53838 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -3962,7 +3962,8 @@ ANY <replaceable class="parameter">num_sync</replaceable> ( <replaceable class="
         used. When setting this parameter you should consider both
         <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>'s shared buffers and the
         portion of the kernel's disk cache that will be used for
-        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> data files.  Also, take
+        <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> data files, though some
+        data might exist in both places. Also, take
         into account the expected number of concurrent queries on different
         tables, since they will have to share the available
         space.  This parameter has no effect on the size of shared
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