Re: should postgres -C print units? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: should postgres -C print units?
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Msg-id 10666.1337803172@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to should postgres -C print units?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> The postgres -C option was added in 9.2.
> $ postgres -D ... -C shared_buffers
> 4096

> Shouldn't that use units?  We use them everywhere else in user
> interfaces.

Hm.  But AFAIR, that feature is not meant to support user interfaces,
it's for programs (such as configuration wizards).  Adding a unit would
likely make it less program-friendly not more so.
        regards, tom lane


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