It doesn't work (it could, but hasn't been implemented).
Back-patch to 12, where shared_memory_type arrived.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
163271880203.22789.
1125998876173795966@wrigleys.postgresql.org
<para>
At present, this setting is supported only on Linux and Windows. The
setting is ignored on other systems when set to
- <literal>try</literal>.
+ <literal>try</literal>. On Linux, it is only supported when
+ <varname>shared_memory_type</varname> is set to <literal>mmap</literal>
+ (the default).
</para>
<para>
errmsg("huge pages not supported on this platform")));
#endif
+ /* For now, we don't support huge pages in SysV memory */
+ if (huge_pages == HUGE_PAGES_ON && shared_memory_type != SHMEM_TYPE_MMAP)
+ ereport(ERROR,
+ (errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
+ errmsg("huge pages not supported with the current shared_memory_type setting")));
+
/* Room for a header? */
Assert(size > MAXALIGN(sizeof(PGShmemHeader)));