Convert [autovacuum_]vacuum_cost_delay into floating-point GUCs.

This change makes it possible to specify sub-millisecond delays,
which work well on most modern platforms, though that was not true
when the cost-delay feature was designed.

To support this without breaking existing configuration entries,
improve guc.c to allow floating-point GUCs to have units.  Also,
allow "us" (microseconds) as an input/output unit for time-unit GUCs.
(It's not allowed as a base unit, at least not yet.)

Likewise change the autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay reloption to be
floating-point; this forces a catversion bump because the layout of
StdRdOptions changes.

This patch doesn't in itself change the default values or allowed
ranges for these parameters, and it should not affect the behavior
for any already-allowed setting for them.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/miscadmin.h b/src/include/miscadmin.h
index c9e35003a57..b677c7e8213 100644
--- a/src/include/miscadmin.h
+++ b/src/include/miscadmin.h
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ extern int	VacuumCostPageHit;
 extern int	VacuumCostPageMiss;
 extern int	VacuumCostPageDirty;
 extern int	VacuumCostLimit;
-extern int	VacuumCostDelay;
+extern double VacuumCostDelay;
 
 extern int	VacuumPageHit;
 extern int	VacuumPageMiss;