Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 21.07.2005, 10:48 -0400 schrieb Tom Lane:
> > Another problem with this patch is the search-and-replace substitution
> > of "SECS_PER_MINUTE" for "60", when in point of fact there are two
> > different meanings of "60" in this context. For instance, this
> > code has no problem:
> >
> > ! int Log_RotationAge = 24 * 60;
> >
> > but this code looks like it has a units error:
> >
> > ! int Log_RotationAge = HOURS_PER_DAY * SECS_PER_MINUTE;
> >
> > You need a "MINS_PER_HOUR" or some such if you don't want people
> > having to look twice at the code.
> >
> > BTW, if you actually wanted to improve readability, defining a
> > SECS_PER_YEAR value and replacing the various occurrences of
> > "36525 * 864" with it would help.
> >
> IIRC the number of seconds in a year is far from a constant.
Yes, I added a comment mentioning that we don't track leap seconds.
And this doesn't handle crossing uneven daylight savings time intervals.
Comments updated.
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