Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code

"Asko Oja" <ascoja(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Anything that will reduce potential downtime should be way to go.

That argument didn't seem to me to be worth the electrons to rebut,
but now that someone else has repeated it, maybe I should. It's
ludicrous to claim that allowing case insensitivity here will make
any noticeable improvement in downtime, as there are far more ways
to screw up your config file than this one. (A config file test mode,
such as was discussed a few weeks ago, *would* help, but this won't.)
In the light of Peter's argument about confusion, one could even
argue that admins putting in wrong values because they got confused
about the meaning of the units is a downtime risk in itself.

regards, tom lane