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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: wal_sender_timeout / wal_receiver_timeout - seconds or milliseconds?
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 21:52:34 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 01:06:45PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/runtime-config-replication.html
> Description:
> 
> Dear sir or madam!
> 
> The documentation about the parameter wal_sender_timeout refers to an
> integer value in milliseconds in the first sentence. Reading up to the
> default value in the paragraph, it is set to 60 seconds. The same difference
> of milliseconds and seconds is included in postgresql.conf:
> 
> #wal_sender_timeout = 60s       # in milliseconds; 0 disables
> 
> This difference is found in the documentation and postgresql.conf for
> parameter wal_receiver_timeout, too.
> 
> #wal_receiver_timeout = 60s             # time that receiver waits for
>                                         # communication from master
>                                         # in milliseconds; 0 disables
> 
> Please check and verify. - Thank you!

The default _value_ is 60 seconds, and we use the 's' to specify
seconds.  What the comment is saying is that if you _don't_ specify any
units, the integer is in milliseconds.  I am not sure how to improve
that.

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