On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > * Gregory Smith (gregsmithpg...@gmail.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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
