On 2023-Feb-08, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I don't think it makes sense to run postgres -C huge_pages_active,
> however, so I see no issue that that would always returns "false".
Hmm, I would initialize it to return "unknown" rather than "off" — and
make sure it turns "off" at the appropriate time. Otherwise you're just
moving the confusion elsewhere.
> If need be, maybe the documentation could say "indicates whether huge
> pages are active for the running server".
Dunno, that seems way too subtle.
> Does anybody else want to vote for a function rather than a
> RUNTIME_COMPUTED GUC ?
I don't think I'd like to have SELECT show_block_size() et al, so I'd
rather not go that way.
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