On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 19:16 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Perhaps it would be more effective to clarify the error message? Right
> > now it just says something to the effect of "invalid integer". I'd
> > imagine "invalid memory unit: TB" would be less confusing.
>
> +1 on that, but I think we should just accept the strings
> case-insensitively, too. SQL in general is not case sensitive for
> keywords, and neither is anything else in the postgresql.conf file,
> so I argue it's inconsistent to be strict about the case for units.
Hello,
Attached is a simple patch that replaces strcmp() with pg_strcasecmp().
Thanks to AndrewS for pointing out that I shouldn't use strcasecp().
I compiled and installed, ran an initdb with 32mb (versus 32MB) and it
seems to work correctly with a show shared_buffers;
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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