| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, John Gorman <johngorman2(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fractions in GUC variables |
| Date: | 2014-12-15 15:50:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20141215155012.GB9827@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:19:19AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Overall, I feel that this isn't really worth the trouble. We use
> > fractions consistently now, so there isn't much room for confusion over
> > what the current values mean. Using a percentage might be more familiar
> > for some people, but OTOH you'll have to get used to the fractions
> > anyway, unless we change the default output format too, and I'm not in
> > favour of doing that. I suggest that we just drop this, and remove the
> > TODO item.
>
> Agreed.
>
> The patch is sound as far as it goes (I might be inclined to accept
> whitespace between number and % sign), but given the above points and
> the original reason for it having been eliminated, I'm inclined to drop it.
TODO item removed.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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