Re: GUC time unit spelling a bit inconsistent - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Subject Re: GUC time unit spelling a bit inconsistent
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Msg-id 46799B56.2010005@kaltenbrunner.cc
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In response to Re: GUC time unit spelling a bit inconsistent  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> If SQL was not a popular standard, we would drop it.  You and Alvaro are
>> saying that 'm' for meter and 'min' for minute is commonly recognized
>> outside the USA/UK, so that is good enough for me to say that the
>> existing setup is fine.
> 
> If we're not going to make the units-parsing any more friendly, for
> gosh sakes let's at least make it give a HINT about what it will accept.

yeah a proper HINT seem like a very reasonable compromise ...


Stefan


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