Re: Improve logging when using Huge Pages

On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 10:40:13AM +0100, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

I think this approach would address my concerns about using a GUC.

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