Re: effective_cache_size vs units - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: effective_cache_size vs units
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Msg-id 200612192310.23992.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: effective_cache_size vs units  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The only value to being case-sensitive in this area is to allow
> upper/lower case with different meanings, but I don't see us using
> that, so why do we bother caring about the case?

Because the units are what they are.

In broader terms, we may one day want to have other units or a 
units-aware data type, so introducing incompatibilities now would be 
unfortunate.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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