On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@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.
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