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

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tomonari Katsumata <t(dot)katsumata1122(at)gmail(dot)com>, David G 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: 2014-09-23 21:15:38
Message-ID: 5421E2FA.4060906@gmx.net
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On 9/23/14 10:29 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Votes or no votes, that's a horrible idea; it breaks the design goal
> that users shouldn't need to remember the precise unit size when making
> postgresql.conf entries.

I think this is not historically correct.

The original motivation was that you had to remember what the units on

shared_buffers = 37

were, and that it was different units than

work_mem = 37

That's independent of the question whether

shared_buffers = 250kB

might be rejected or not.

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