Re: GUC with units, details - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: GUC with units, details
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Msg-id 13603.1154038687@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: GUC with units, details  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> ... The question is whether we want to have kB mean 
> 1000 bytes instead of 1024 bytes.

> In my mind, that goes against current practice.

I concur.  Most of the places where we are using these units, they are
for specifying memory sizes, and *everyone* does memory sizes in binary.
The argument from disk drive makers' obviously marketing-driven decision
to use decimal doesn't impress me.  And the argument from standards that
are just about universally ignored doesn't impress me either ...
        regards, tom lane


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