Re: wal_sender_timeout / wal_receiver_timeout - seconds or milliseconds?

Michael Paquier <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:41:10 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 10:21:38AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Ugh, the "if no unit specified" is true of all the settings.  Should we
> make that clearer in a more central location.

Hmm.  Are you thinking about a new single location in the docs?  I
would be afraid to have something like that rot easily as users would
most likely only read the description of each individual parameter
rather than travel across multiple sections.  Also, if you look at
guc.c the default units of each parameter are a case-by-case.
log_rotation_age uses minutes for example, autovacuum_naptime seconds,
etc.
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Michael
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