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 54234996.2050702@gmx.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.  (Gregory Smith <gregsmithpgsql@gmail.com>)
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On 9/23/14 11:55 PM, Gregory Smith wrote:
> Right now there are people out there who have configurations that look
> like this:
> 
> log_rotation_age=60
> 
> In order to get hourly rotation.  These users will suffer some trauma
> should they upgrade to a version where this parameter now means a new
> log file pops every 60 seconds instead.

But then this proposal is just one of several others that break backward
compatibility, and does so in a more or less silent way.  Then we might
as well pick another approach that gets closer to the root of the problem.




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