On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 10:03 AM David Rowley <david.row...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 09:58, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > The second patch is a delta that rounds off to the next smaller unit > > if there is one, producing a less noisy result: > > > > regression=# set work_mem = '30.1GB'; > > SET > > regression=# show work_mem; > > work_mem > > ---------- > > 30822MB > > (1 row) > > > > I'm not sure if that's a good idea or just overthinking the problem. > > Thoughts? > > I don't think you're over thinking it. I often have to look at such > settings and I'm probably not unique in when I glance at 30822MB I can > see that's roughly 30GB, whereas when I look at 31562138kB, I'm either > counting digits or reaching for a calculator. This is going to reduce > the time it takes for a human to process the pg_settings output, so I > think it's a good idea.
Definitely, rounding up will spare people from wasting time to check what's the actual value.
