Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Gregory Smith (gregsmithpgsql@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.

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