Re: [BUGS] BUG #14244: wrong suffix for pg_size_pretty() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #14244: wrong suffix for pg_size_pretty()
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Msg-id 20160730002625.GB22405@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [BUGS] BUG #14244: wrong suffix for pg_size_pretty()  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 08:18:38PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> However, that is not the end of the story.  Things have moved forward
> since 2006 and there is now firm support for either KB or KiB to be
> 1024-based units.  This blog post explains the current state of prefix
> specification:
> 
>     http://pchelp.ricmedia.com/kilobytes-megabytes-gigabytes-terabytes-explained/
> 
> and here is a summary for 1000/1024-based units:
> 
>     Kilobyte (Binary, JEDEC)    KB    1024
>     Kilobyte (Decimal, Metric)    kB    1000
>     Kibibyte (Binary, IEC)        KiB    1024

Oh, also, here is a Wikipedia article that has a nice chart on the top
right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

and a post that explains some of the background:
http://superuser.com/questions/938234/size-of-files-in-windows-os-its-kb-or-kb

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