It seems that time-based GUC variables can be spelled like 1h but not 1hr 1min but not 1m 1s but not 1sec This is inconsistent and confusing. I don't object to the ones on the left as being the standard spellings for printout, but if we're not going to have a simple uniform rule like "shortest possible abbreviation" then we ought to accept plausible alternatives on input.
I got burnt by this just now because I looked at the autovacuum_naptime setting in postgresql.conf, which is shown as '1min', and figured I could change it to '5sec'. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match