| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Gregory Smith <gregsmithpgsql(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit. |
| Date: | 2014-09-26 14:54:13 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZx8zzuQOMLmPyVjSaniJzp_2YUnnhCs9QO3RvX_x+pOg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Gregory Smith (gregsmithpgsql(at)gmail(dot)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.
There's also the fact that it doesn't fix the originally complained-of
problem. It does fix a problem with one of the fixes proposed for
that original problem, though.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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