On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Also, once you free yourself from the analogy to work_mem, you could > adopt some more natural unit than KB. I'd think MB would be a practical > unit size, and would avoid (at least for the near term) the need to make > the parameter a float.
As long as users can specify any unit when they input the parameter it doesn't really matter what unit the variable is stored in. I'm not sure the GUC infrastructure can currently handle megabytes as the native units for a guc though. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
