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block_size
Reports the size of a disk block. It is determined by the value of BLCKSZ when building the server. The default value is 8192 bytes. The meaning of some configuration variables (such as shared_buffers) is influenced by block_size. See Section 19.4 for information.
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- boot val
- 8192
- category
- Preset Options
- context
- internal
- documented
- true
- enumvals
- Unknown
- extra desc
- Unknown
- lang
- en
- max val
- 8192
- metadata version
- 18
- min val
- 8192
- name
- block_size
- short desc
- Shows the size of a disk block.
- source
- pg-settings-source-snapshot
- unit
- Unknown
- vartype
- integer
Definition PG 18
Reports the size of a disk block. It is determined by the value of BLCKSZ when building the server. The default value is 8192 bytes. The meaning of some configuration variables (such as shared_buffers) is influenced by block_size. See Section 19.4 for information.
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center · PostgreSQL 18 · wiki-repair-20261023:49ad958e28b12bb02e2b77d719ccecb4b2324cb9649c5fcbd43b92132d01fefc
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