Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.
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Msg-id 20140925204908.GE16422@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.  (Gregory Smith <gregsmithpgsql@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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* Gregory Smith (gregsmithpgsql@gmail.com) wrote:
> On 9/25/14, 2:02 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >But having the same parameter setting mean different things in
> >different versions is the path to complete madness.
>
> Could we go so far as to remove support for unitless time settings
> eventually?  The fact that people are setting raw numbers in the
> configuration file and have to know the unit to understand what they
> just did has never been something I like.

I could certainly get behind that idea...  Tho I do understand that
people will complain about backwards compatibility, etc, etc.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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