Re: wal_sender_timeout / wal_receiver_timeout - seconds or milliseconds?

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 04:41:10PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 10:21:38AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Ugh, the "if no unit specified" is true of all the settings. Should we
> > make that clearer in a more central location.
>
> Hmm. Are you thinking about a new single location in the docs? I
> would be afraid to have something like that rot easily as users would
> most likely only read the description of each individual parameter
> rather than travel across multiple sections. Also, if you look at
> guc.c the default units of each parameter are a case-by-case.
> log_rotation_age uses minutes for example, autovacuum_naptime seconds,
> etc.

Right. I am just asking if we need to do this for _every_ case where
the default value doesn't match the default _units_, or if we need to
have some kind of central notification.

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