Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix log_temp_files docs and comments to say bytes not kilobytes.

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix log_temp_files docs and comments to say bytes not kilobytes.
Date: 2010-07-08 00:32:12
Message-ID: AANLkTiko1gnFwc9iczgeOa8XPzh7AwNJZEyxtCQts7tA@mail.gmail.com
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2010/7/8 Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>:
> On 7/6/10 8:06 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It might be that nobody's using any values other than 0 and -1 ...
>> in which case it wouldn't matter anyway.  I agree that the lack of
>> bug reports is notable.  But still, don't we try to avoid behavioral
>> changes in stable branches?
>
> I think most people are doing what I was doing: looking at the values in
> the logs, and writing math appropriately.  Most of the other log output
> isn't documented well, and the output values are obviously bytes, so
> frankly it never occurred to me to check the docs.

Samething here

>
> Agreed that backporting the fix to 8.3 and 8.4 is infeasible.

+1
But I don't understand why not backport a documentation patch. Thing
is identified, clearly boring for one just trusting the docs.

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