Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: David Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gregory Smith <gregsmithpgsql(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.
Date: 2014-09-26 18:33:53
Message-ID: 9061.1411756433@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> Agreed- they're independent considerations and the original concern was
> about the nonzero-to-zero issue, so I'd suggest we address that first,
> though in doing so we will need to consider what *actual* min values we
> should have for some cases which currently allow going to zero for the
> special case and that, I believe, makes this all 9.5 material and allows
> us a bit more freedom in deciding how to hanlde things more generally.

Yeah, I was thinking the same: we should go through the GUCs having zero
as min_val and see if any of them could be tightened up. And I agree
that *all* of this is 9.5 material --- it's not a big enough deal to
risk changing behaviors in a minor release.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message David Johnston 2014-09-26 18:34:20 Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.
Previous Message Stephen Frost 2014-09-26 18:27:09 Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.