On 04/03/15 08:57, Tom Lane wrote:
Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes:
Do we want to remove unit comments from all settings which accept
"MB,GB" or "ms,s,min"? There's more than a few. I'd be in favor of
this, but seems like (a) it should be universal, and (b) its own patch.
Meh. Doing this strikes me as a serious documentation failure, since it
is no longer apparent what happens if you put in a unitless number.
Now, if we were to change the server so that it *refused* settings that
didn't have a unit, that argument would become moot. But I'm not going
to defend the castle against the villagers who will show up if you do
that.
regards, tom lane
How about introducing a 'strict' mode that does extra checking like that?
JavaScript and Perl, both have a 'strict' mode.
In strict mode you could insist on all quantities having units, and
possibly some additional sanity checking - without enraging the peasants!
Cheers,
Gavin
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