Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Gregory Smith <gregsmithpgsql(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.
Date: 2014-09-25 20:49:08
Message-ID: 20140925204908.GE16422@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Gregory Smith (gregsmithpgsql(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On 9/25/14, 2:02 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >But having the same parameter setting mean different things in
> >different versions is the path to complete madness.
>
> Could we go so far as to remove support for unitless time settings
> eventually? The fact that people are setting raw numbers in the
> configuration file and have to know the unit to understand what they
> just did has never been something I like.

I could certainly get behind that idea... Tho I do understand that
people will complain about backwards compatibility, etc, etc.

Thanks,

Stephen

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