On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>
>> But you could also write SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE
>> pg_relation_size(oid) > 100 * 1024^3, which is actually fewer
>> characters. Maybe pg_size_bytes('100 GB') is easier for some people
>> to remember than 100 * 1024^3, but I'm probably not one of those
>> people.
>
> Nah, that might work for geek types, but I doubt it's the preferred
> spelling for most people. I think the proposal is quite reasonable.
>
> If we were only catering for people who can do 2^10 arithmetic off the
> top of their heads, we wouldn't have pg_size_pretty at all, would we?
Well, I don't know what 100 * 1024^3 is off the top of my head, but I
know that I can compute it by typing exactly that. So I think one
direction is easier than the other. However, IJWH.
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