On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 17:57, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Florian G. Pflug wrote: > > Rounding up would have the advantage that you could just specify "0" > > in the config file, and have postgres use the smallest value > > possible. > > In most algebras, dividing zero by something is still zero, so there'd > be no need to round anything.
I think he was refering to silently apply the minimum allowed if the value is less than that... a lot of the settings have a minimum allowable value. The question is if this can qualify as rounding :-) Cheers, Csaba. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org