| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| 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 14:36:03 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZdg+6OGJdLQN1aQ3jYZsNUPuj=-u7W7iFpNYpW4FescA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Three people have voted for making it an *error* to supply a value
>> that needs to be rounded, instead of changing the rounding behavior.
>
> 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.
Not at all. You can still supply the value in another unit as long as
it converts exactly. If it doesn't, shouldn't you care about that?
> And I'm not sure what votes you're counting, anyway. People's opinions
> have changed as the discussion proceeded ...
David Johnston, Peter Eisentraut, myself. I don't see any indication
that any of those three people have reversed their opinion at any
point.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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