On 03/03/2015 11:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@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.
Well, you know my opinion about documentation in the pg.conf file.
However, I'm not confident I'm in the majority there.
> 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.
No, thanks!
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