Commit e36716a6 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

Add standard boilerplate sentence about when stats_temp_directory can be changed.

parent f1e237b6
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<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Server Configuration</title>
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</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
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>
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