Re: allow segment size to be set to < 1GiB

On 2022-11-09 We 15:25, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-11-09 14:44:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>>> A second question: Both autoconf and meson print the segment size as GB right
>>> now. Obviously that'll print out a size of 0 for a segsize < 1GB.
>>> The easiest way to would be to just display the number of blocks, but that's
>>> not particularly nice.
>> Well, it would be fine if you'd written --with-segsize-blocks, wouldn't
>> it?  Can we make the printout format depend on which switch was used?
> Not sure why I didn't think of that...
>
> Updated patch attached.
>
> I made one autoconf and one meson CI task use a small block size, but just to
> ensure it work on both. I'd probably leave it set on one, so we keep the
> coverage for cfbot?
>

Are we going to impose some sane minimum, or leave it up to developers
to discover that for themselves?


cheers


andrew

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