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Miscellaneous Parameters

enable_default_ustore_table

Parameter description: Specifies whether to enable the UStore storage engine by default. If this parameter is set to on, all created tables are UStore tables.

This parameter is a USERSET parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1. Note that the track_counts and track_activities parameters must be enabled when the Ustore table is used. Otherwise, space expansion may occur.

Value range: [off,on]

Default value: off

enable_ustore

Parameter description: Specifies whether to enable the Ustore storage engine. If this parameter is set to on, Ustore tables can be created. Note that the track_counts and track_activities parameters must be enabled when the Ustore table is used. Otherwise, space expansion may occur.

This parameter is a POSTMASTER parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: [off,on]

Default value: on

reserve_space_for_nullable_atts

Parameter description: Specifies whether to reserve space for the nullable attribute of an Ustore table. If this parameter is set to on, space is reserved for the nullable attribute of the Ustore table by default.

This parameter is a USERSET parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: [off,on]

Default value: on

ustore_attr

Parameter description: Specifies the UStore test parameters.

This parameter is a USERSET parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

You can set enable_ustore_partial_seqscan (copy selective columns only during sequential scanning in the ustore table), enable_candidate_buf_usage_count (whether dirty pages are evicted and added to the use count weight), and ustats_tracker_naptime (time for reloading the statistics file). umax_search_length_for_prune (number of blocks to be pruned before table extension) and ustore_unit_test (starting the UStore white box test). The setting method is ustore_att ='enable_ustore_partial_seqscan=on'.

Value range: a string

server_version

Parameter description: Specifies the server version number.

This parameter is a fixed parameter of the INTERNAL type. It can be viewed but cannot be modified. This parameter is inherited from the PostgreSQL kernel, indicating that the current database kernel is compatible with the server_version version corresponding to PostgreSQL. This parameter is reserved to ensure the ecosystem compatibility of the northbound external tool interface (query when the tool is connected). This parameter is not recommended. To query the server version, use the opengauss_version() function.

Value range: a string

Default value: 9.2.4

server_version_num

Parameter description: Specifies the server version number.

This parameter is a fixed parameter of the INTERNAL type. It can be viewed but cannot be modified. This parameter is inherited from the PostgreSQL kernel, indicating that the current database kernel is compatible with the server_version_num version corresponding to PostgreSQL. This parameter is reserved to ensure the ecosystem compatibility of the northbound external tool API. (query when the tool is connected).

Value range: an integer

Default value: 90204

block_size

Parameter description: Specifies the block size of the current database.

This parameter is a fixed INTERNAL parameter and cannot be modified.

Value: 8192

Default value: 8192

segment_size

Parameter description: Specifies the segment file size of the current database.

This parameter is a fixed INTERNAL parameter and cannot be modified.

Unit: 8 KB

Default value: 131072, that is, 1 GB

max_index_keys

Parameter description: Specifies the maximum number of index keys supported by the current database.

This parameter is a fixed INTERNAL parameter and cannot be modified.

Default value: 32

integer_datetimes

Parameter description: Specifies whether the date and time are in the 64-bit integer format.

This parameter is a fixed INTERNAL parameter and cannot be modified.

Value range: Boolean

  • on indicates that the 64-bit integer format is used.
  • off indicates that the 64-bit integer format is not used.

Default value: on

lc_collate

Parameter description: Specifies the locale in which sorting of textual data is done.

This parameter is a fixed INTERNAL parameter and cannot be modified.

Default value: Determined by the configuration set during the database installation and deployment.

lc_ctype

Parameter description: Specifies the locale that determines character classifications. For example, it specifies what a letter and its upper-case equivalent are.

This parameter is a fixed INTERNAL parameter and cannot be modified.

Default value: Determined by the configuration set during the database installation and deployment.

max_identifier_length

Parameter description: Specifies the maximum identifier length.

This parameter is a fixed INTERNAL parameter and cannot be modified.

Value range: an integer

Default value: 63

server_encoding

Parameter description: Specifies the database encoding (character set).

By default, gs_initdb will initialize the setting of this parameter based on the current system environment. You can also run the locale command to check the current configuration environment.

This parameter is a fixed INTERNAL parameter and cannot be modified.

Default value: determined by the current system environment when the database is created.

enable_upgrade_merge_lock_mode

Parameter description: If this parameter is set to on, the delta merge operation internally increases the lock level, and errors can be prevented when update and delete operations are performed at the same time.

This parameter is a USERSET parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: Boolean

  • If this parameter is set to on, the delta merge operation internally increases the lock level. In this way, when the DELTAMERGE operation is concurrently performed with the UPDATE or DELETE operation, one operation can be performed only after the previous one is complete.
  • If this parameter is set to off and the DELTAMERGE operation is concurrently performed with the UPDATE or DELETE operation to the data in a row in the delta table of the table, errors will be reported during the later operation, and the operation will stop.

Default value: off

transparent_encrypted_string

Parameter description: Specifies a sample string that is transparently encrypted. Its value is generated by encrypting TRANS_ENCRYPT_SAMPLE_STRING using a database secret key. The ciphertext is used to check whether the DEK obtained during secondary startup is correct. If it is incorrect, database nodes will not be started. This parameter is a POSTMASTER parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1. This parameter applies only to the DWS scenario in the current version.

Value range: a string. An empty string indicates that the entire database is a not encrypted.

Default value: empty

Do not set this parameter manually. Otherwise, the database may become faulty.

transparent_encrypt_kms_url

Parameter description: Specifies the URL for obtaining the database secret key to be transparently encrypted. It must contain only the characters specified in RFC3986, and the maximum length is 2047 bytes. The format is kms://Protocol@KMS host name 1;KMS host name 2:KMS port number/kms, for example, kms://https@linux175:29800/. This parameter applies only to the DWS scenario in the current version.

This parameter is a POSTMASTER parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: a string

Default value: empty

transparent_encrypt_kms_region

Parameter description: Specifies the deployment region of the entire database. It must contain only the characters specified in RFC3986, and the maximum length is 2047 bytes. This parameter applies only to the DWS scenario in the current version.

This parameter is a POSTMASTER parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: a string

Default value: empty

basebackup_timeout

Parameter description: Specifies the timeout interval for a connection that has no read or write operations after a backup transfer is complete.

When the gs_basebackup tool is used for transmission and a high compression rate is specified, the transmission of the tablespace may time out (the client needs to compress the transmitted data).

Value range: an integer ranging from 0 to INT_MAX. The unit is s. 0 indicates that archiving timeout is disabled.

Default value: 600s

datanode_heartbeat_interval

Parameter description: Specifies the interval at which heartbeat messages are sent between heartbeat threads. You are advised to set this parameter to a value no more than wal_receiver_timeout/2.

This parameter is a SIGHUP parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: an integer ranging from 1000 to 60000. The unit is ms.

Default value: 1s

max_concurrent_autonomous_transactions

Parameter description: Specifies the maximum number of autonomous transaction connections, that is, the maximum number of concurrent autonomous transactions executed at the same time. If this parameter is set to 0, autonomous transactions cannot be executed.

This parameter is a POSTMASTER parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: 0 to1024

Default value: 10

cluster_run_mode

Parameter description: Specifies whether a DN belongs to the primary or standby database instance in the dual-database instance DR scenario. For a single database instance, use the default primary database instance.

This parameter is a POSTMASTER parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: enumerated values

  • cluster_primary indicates the primary database instance.
  • cluster_standby indicates the standby database instance.

Default value: cluster_primary

acceleration_with_compute_pool

Parameter description: Specifies whether to use the computing resource pool for acceleration when an OBS is queried. (Due to specification changes, the current version no longer supports the current feature. Do not use this feature.)

This parameter is a USERSET parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: Boolean

  • on indicates that the query covering the OBS is accelerated based on the cost when the computing resource pool is available.
  • off indicates that no query is accelerated using the computing resource pool.

Default value: off

dfs_partition_directory_length

Parameter description: Specifies the maximum directory name length for the partition directory of a table partitioned by VALUE in the HDFS.

This parameter is a USERSET parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: 92 to 7999

Default value: 512

max_resource_package

Parameter description: Specifies the maximum number of threads that each DN can run concurrently on an acceleration database instance on the cloud.

This parameter is a POSTMASTER parameter. Set it based on instructions provided in Table 1.

Value range: 0 to 2147483647

Default value: 0