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max_notify_queue_pages
Specifies the maximum amount of allocated pages for NOTIFY / LISTEN queue. The default value is 1048576. For 8 KB pages it allows to consume up to 8 GB of disk space. This parameter can only be set at server start.
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- boot val
- 1048576
- category
- Resource Usage / Disk
- context
- postmaster
- documented
- true
- enumvals
- Unknown
- extra desc
- Unknown
- lang
- en
- max val
- 2147483647
- metadata version
- 18
- min val
- 64
- name
- max_notify_queue_pages
- short desc
- Sets the maximum number of allocated pages for NOTIFY / LISTEN queue.
- source
- pg-settings-source-snapshot
- unit
- Unknown
- vartype
- integer
Definition PG 18
Specifies the maximum amount of allocated pages for NOTIFY / LISTEN queue. The default value is 1048576. For 8 KB pages it allows to consume up to 8 GB of disk space. This parameter can only be set at server start.
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