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

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Gregory Smith <gregsmithpgsql(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.
Date: 2014-09-24 22:45:42
Message-ID: 54234996.2050702@gmx.net
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On 9/23/14 11:55 PM, Gregory Smith wrote:
> Right now there are people out there who have configurations that look
> like this:
>
> log_rotation_age=60
>
> In order to get hourly rotation. These users will suffer some trauma
> should they upgrade to a version where this parameter now means a new
> log file pops every 60 seconds instead.

But then this proposal is just one of several others that break backward
compatibility, and does so in a more or less silent way. Then we might
as well pick another approach that gets closer to the root of the problem.

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