On 9/3/08, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Asko Oja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anything that will reduce potential downtime should be way to go. > > That argument didn't seem to me to be worth the electrons to rebut, > but now that someone else has repeated it, maybe I should. It's > ludicrous to claim that allowing case insensitivity here will make > any noticeable improvement in downtime, as there are far more ways > to screw up your config file than this one. (A config file test mode, > such as was discussed a few weeks ago, *would* help, but this won't.) > In the light of Peter's argument about confusion, one could even > argue that admins putting in wrong values because they got confused > about the meaning of the units is a downtime risk in itself.
How can the meaning of "gb", "mb", "kb" be uncertain? But currently writing "kb" *will* load database with wrong values. -- marko -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
