Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: GUC with units, details - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bort, Paul
Subject Re: GUC with units, details
Date
Msg-id DB106B1B5B8F734B8FF3E155A3A556C202D4FD77@clemail1.tmwsystems.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to GUC with units, details  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: GUC with units, details  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
Tree view 
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> Memory units are kB, MB, GB.  The factor is 1024.
>

Then shouldn't the factor be 1000? If the factor is 1024, then the units
should be KiB, MiB, GiB per IEEE 1541
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541) and others.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but the general approach with -hackers
seems to be towards compliance where practical.

Regards,
Paul Bort

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: On-disk bitmap index patch
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Refactoring the API for amgetmulti