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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.
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Msg-id 53FCF51F.9090405@gmx.net
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In response to Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 8/26/14 4:22 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Is the whole topic actually practically relevant?

It's clearly not all that important, or otherwise we'd have heard about
before now.

I suppose someone could do something like

wal_receiver_status_interval = 10ms

and end up silently turning the whole thing off instead of making it
very aggressive.

The mistake here is that the mathematically appropriate turn-off value
in this and similar cases is infinity, not zero.




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