Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 16:50 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Gregory Stark wrote:
>>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

> Are you really afraid that someone would want to use mb to mean
> millibits ?
> 
> As SQL is generally case insensitive, it is quite surprising to most
> people that GUC units are not.

We have had this discussion before, I even submitted a patch to make 
them case insensitive. In retrospect I was wrong to submit that patch. 
SQL may be case insensitive but units are not. MB != Mb != mb , I don't 
think we should encourage in any way for users to do the wrong thing.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake