2 19.15. Preset Options #
4 The following “parameters” are read-only. As such, they have been
5 excluded from the sample postgresql.conf file. These options report
6 various aspects of PostgreSQL behavior that might be of interest to
7 certain applications, particularly administrative front-ends. Most of
8 them are determined when PostgreSQL is compiled or when it is
11 block_size (integer) #
12 Reports the size of a disk block. It is determined by the value
13 of BLCKSZ when building the server. The default value is 8192
14 bytes. The meaning of some configuration variables (such as
15 shared_buffers) is influenced by block_size. See Section 19.4
18 data_checksums (boolean) #
19 Reports whether data checksums are enabled for this cluster. See
20 -k for more information.
22 data_directory_mode (integer) #
23 On Unix systems this parameter reports the permissions the data
24 directory (defined by data_directory) had at server startup. (On
25 Microsoft Windows this parameter will always display 0700.) See
26 the initdb -g option for more information.
28 debug_assertions (boolean) #
29 Reports whether PostgreSQL has been built with assertions
30 enabled. That is the case if the macro USE_ASSERT_CHECKING is
31 defined when PostgreSQL is built (accomplished e.g., by the
32 configure option --enable-cassert). By default PostgreSQL is
33 built without assertions.
35 huge_pages_status (enum) #
36 Reports the state of huge pages in the current instance: on,
37 off, or unknown (if displayed with postgres -C). This parameter
38 is useful to determine whether allocation of huge pages was
39 successful under huge_pages=try. See huge_pages for more
42 integer_datetimes (boolean) #
43 Reports whether PostgreSQL was built with support for
44 64-bit-integer dates and times. As of PostgreSQL 10, this is
47 in_hot_standby (boolean) #
48 Reports whether the server is currently in hot standby mode.
49 When this is on, all transactions are forced to be read-only.
50 Within a session, this can change only if the server is promoted
51 to be primary. See Section 26.4 for more information.
53 max_function_args (integer) #
54 Reports the maximum number of function arguments. It is
55 determined by the value of FUNC_MAX_ARGS when building the
56 server. The default value is 100 arguments.
58 max_identifier_length (integer) #
59 Reports the maximum identifier length. It is determined as one
60 less than the value of NAMEDATALEN when building the server. The
61 default value of NAMEDATALEN is 64; therefore the default
62 max_identifier_length is 63 bytes, which can be less than 63
63 characters when using multibyte encodings.
65 max_index_keys (integer) #
66 Reports the maximum number of index keys. It is determined by
67 the value of INDEX_MAX_KEYS when building the server. The
68 default value is 32 keys.
70 num_os_semaphores (integer) #
71 Reports the number of semaphores that are needed for the server
72 based on the configured number of allowed connections
73 (max_connections), allowed autovacuum worker processes
74 (autovacuum_max_workers), allowed WAL sender processes
75 (max_wal_senders), allowed background processes
76 (max_worker_processes), etc.
78 segment_size (integer) #
79 Reports the number of blocks (pages) that can be stored within a
80 file segment. It is determined by the value of RELSEG_SIZE when
81 building the server. The maximum size of a segment file in bytes
82 is equal to segment_size multiplied by block_size; by default
85 server_encoding (string) #
86 Reports the database encoding (character set). It is determined
87 when the database is created. Ordinarily, clients need only be
88 concerned with the value of client_encoding.
90 server_version (string) #
91 Reports the version number of the server. It is determined by
92 the value of PG_VERSION when building the server.
94 server_version_num (integer) #
95 Reports the version number of the server as an integer. It is
96 determined by the value of PG_VERSION_NUM when building the
99 shared_memory_size (integer) #
100 Reports the size of the main shared memory area, rounded up to
101 the nearest megabyte.
103 shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages (integer) #
104 Reports the number of huge pages that are needed for the main
105 shared memory area based on the specified huge_page_size. If
106 huge pages are not supported, this will be -1.
108 This setting is supported only on Linux. It is always set to -1
109 on other platforms. For more details about using huge pages on
110 Linux, see Section 18.4.5.
112 ssl_library (string) #
113 Reports the name of the SSL library that this PostgreSQL server
114 was built with (even if SSL is not currently configured or in
115 use on this instance), for example OpenSSL, or an empty string
118 wal_block_size (integer) #
119 Reports the size of a WAL disk block. It is determined by the
120 value of XLOG_BLCKSZ when building the server. The default value
123 wal_segment_size (integer) #
124 Reports the size of write ahead log segments. The default value
125 is 16MB. See Section 28.5 for more information.