On 03/03/2015 11:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: >> Do we want to remove unit comments from all settings which accept >> "MB,GB" or "ms,s,min"? There's more than a few. I'd be in favor of >> this, but seems like (a) it should be universal, and (b) its own patch. > > Meh. Doing this strikes me as a serious documentation failure, since it > is no longer apparent what happens if you put in a unitless number.
Well, you know my opinion about documentation in the pg.conf file. However, I'm not confident I'm in the majority there. > Now, if we were to change the server so that it *refused* settings that > didn't have a unit, that argument would become moot. But I'm not going > to defend the castle against the villagers who will show up if you do > that. No, thanks! -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
