Robert Haas wrote:
>bits...bytes...blocks...m...M
>
> I can't imagine that taking away the "B" is somehow going to
> be more clear.
If clarity is the goal, I'd want the following:
a) Verbosely spelling out the units in the default config file
temp_buffers = 16 megabytes or temp_buffers = 16 milliblocks :-)
Naive users who favor cut&paste will use the verbose words that should leave little room for confusion.
Power-users who know the short forms from the docs will presumably have read the descriptions.
b) having "show" show verbosely spelled out units. db=# show temp_buffers; temp_buffers -------------- 16000000
bytes (1 row)
c) having "set" show a NOTICE with the verbose word for the units db=# set temp_buffers = '16mb'; NOTICE: setting
temp_buffersto 16000000 bytes
