Re: Units in postgresql.conf -- How to report? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Units in postgresql.conf -- How to report?
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Msg-id 200607252342.13832.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Units in postgresql.conf -- How to report?  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:48:34AM +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > So assuming we allowed units in postgresql.conf, how would you
> > > report them with SHOW?
> > >
> > > 1. The way they were set (hard)
> > >
> > > 2. Without units (not user-friendly)
> > >
> > > 3. Always in base units (seconds or bytes)
> > >
> > > 4. The largest unit that gives an integer
> > >
> > > (4) seems the most reasonable to me in terms of interface and
> > > implementation.
>
> 5. Using whatever units were used in postgresql.conf

That is (1).

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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