On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> Three people have voted for making it an *error* to supply a value >> that needs to be rounded, instead of changing the rounding behavior. > > Votes or no votes, that's a horrible idea; it breaks the design goal > that users shouldn't need to remember the precise unit size when making > postgresql.conf entries.
Not at all. You can still supply the value in another unit as long as it converts exactly. If it doesn't, shouldn't you care about that? > And I'm not sure what votes you're counting, anyway. People's opinions > have changed as the discussion proceeded ... David Johnston, Peter Eisentraut, myself. I don't see any indication that any of those three people have reversed their opinion at any point. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
