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huge_pages_status
Reports the state of huge pages in the current instance: on, off, or unknown (if displayed with postgres -C). This parameter is useful to determine whether allocation of huge pages was successful under huge_pages=try. See huge_pages for more information.
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- boot val
- unknown
- category
- Preset Options
- context
- internal
- documented
- true
- enumvals
- off, on, unknown
- extra desc
- Unknown
- lang
- en
- max val
- Unknown
- metadata version
- 18
- min val
- Unknown
- name
- huge_pages_status
- short desc
- Indicates the status of huge pages.
- source
- pg-settings-source-snapshot
- unit
- Unknown
- vartype
- enum
Definition PG 18
Reports the state of huge pages in the current instance: on, off, or unknown (if displayed with postgres -C). This parameter is useful to determine whether allocation of huge pages was successful under huge_pages=try. See huge_pages for more information.
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