From e36716a6534a393225d3c45fcbb85f75d017cad1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:03:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add standard boilerplate sentence about when
stats_temp_directory can be changed.
---
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 19 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 757ee2a3dbc..9d33918a3ec 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.189 2008/08/25 18:55:43 mha Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.190 2008/08/25 19:03:37 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Server Configuration</title>
@@ -3414,13 +3414,16 @@ COPY postgres_log FROM '/full/path/to/logfile.csv' WITH csv;
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
- Sets the directory to store temporary statistics data in. This can be a
- path relative to the data directory or an absolute path. The default is
- <filename>pg_stat_tmp</filename>. Pointing this at a RAM based filesystem
- will decrease physical I/O requirements and can lead to increased
- performance. If this parameter is changed when the system is running,
- there is a small window of time until the new file has been written
- during which the statistics functions might return no information.
+ Sets the directory to store temporary statistics data in. This can be
+ a path relative to the data directory or an absolute path. The default
+ is <filename>pg_stat_tmp</filename>. Pointing this at a RAM based
+ filesystem will decrease physical I/O requirements and can lead to
+ improved performance.
+ This parameter can only be set in the <filename>postgresql.conf</>
+ file or on the server command line.
+ If this parameter is changed while the server is running, there is a
+ small window of time until the new statistics file has been written
+ during which the statistics functions might return no information.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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