On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:13:53PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> So assuming we allowed units in postgresql.conf, how would you report
> them with SHOW?
>
> 1. The way they were set (hard)
>
> 2. Without units (not user-friendly)
>
> 3. Always in base units (seconds or bytes)
>
> 4. The largest unit that gives an integer
>
> (4) seems the most reasonable to me in terms of interface and
> implementation.
I'm for (4), as it's also what people are used to from things like
GNU's -h option.
Cheers,
D
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