David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> writes: > What about a ./configure option that basically removes the min/max > limits of every setting where it makes sense?
It's pretty much never the case that anything goes; for example, are we going to insist that the code be able to respond sanely to negative checkpoint_timeout? The GUC limit mechanism was really invented to avoid having to do that, as much or more than preventing users from picking "bad" values. And I don't want to maintain two sets of limits, so I'm not for some sort of "training wheels off" vs "training wheels on" GUC. We could move towards a project policy that limits be set according to what's sensible for the code to support rather than what seems like useful ranges. Again though, most of the ensuing work needs to be documentation not code changes. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers