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serializable_buffers
Specifies the amount of shared memory to use to cache the contents of pg_serial (see Table 66.1). If this value is specified without units, it is taken as blocks, that is BLCKSZ bytes, typically 8kB. The default value is 32. This parameter can only be set at server start.
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- boot val
- 32
- category
- Resource Usage / Memory
- context
- postmaster
- documented
- true
- enumvals
- Unknown
- extra desc
- Unknown
- lang
- en
- max val
- 131072
- metadata version
- 18
- min val
- 16
- name
- serializable_buffers
- short desc
- Sets the size of the dedicated buffer pool used for the serializable transaction cache.
- source
- pg-settings-source-snapshot
- unit
- 8kB
- vartype
- integer
Definition PG 18
Specifies the amount of shared memory to use to cache the contents of pg_serial (see Table 66.1). If this value is specified without units, it is taken as blocks, that is BLCKSZ bytes, typically 8kB. The default value is 32. This parameter can only be set at server start.
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