Re: GUC with units, details - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Csaba Nagy
Subject Re: GUC with units, details
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Msg-id 1154016443.22367.156.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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In response to Re: GUC with units, details  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 17:57, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> > Rounding up would have the advantage that you could just specify "0"
> > in the config file, and have postgres use the smallest value
> > possible.
> 
> In most algebras, dividing zero by something is still zero, so there'd 
> be no need to round anything.

I think he was refering to silently apply the minimum allowed if the
value is less than that... a lot of the settings have a minimum
allowable value. The question is if this can qualify as rounding :-)

Cheers,
Csaba.




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