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 20160823183315.GF3895@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [BUGS] BUG #14244: wrong suffix for pg_size_pretty()  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Re: [BUGS] BUG #14244: wrong suffix for pg_size_pretty()
Re: [BUGS] BUG #14244: wrong suffix for pg_size_pretty()
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 02:31:26PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > That's why I was asking you to comment on the final patch, which I am
> > planning to apply to PG 10 soon.
> 
> Oh, OK.  I didn't understand that that was what you are asking.  I
> don't find either of your proposed final patches to be an improvement
> over the status quo.  I think the selection of kB rather than KB was a
> deliberate decision by Peter Eisentraut, and I don't think changing
> our practice now buys us anything meaningful.  Your first patch
> introduces an odd wart into the GUC mechanism, with a strange wording
> for the message, to fix something that's not really broken in the
> first place.  Your second one alters kB to KB in zillions of places
> all over the code base, and I am quite sure that there is no consensus
> to do anything of that sort.

Well, the patch was updated several times, and the final version was not
objected to until you objected.  Does anyone else want to weigh in?

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