Re: 8.1 system info / admin functions

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> > While we're on the subject, the units used by pg_size_pretty() are
> > incorrect, at least according to the IEC: for example, "MB" is
> > strictly-speaking one million bytes, not 1024^2 bytes. 1024^2 bytes is 1
> > MiB (similarly for KiB, GiB, and TiB). I'll take a look at fixing this
> > as well, barring any objections.
>
> [ itch... ] The IEC may think they get to define what's correct, but
> I don't think that squares with common usage. The only people who
> think MB is measured in decimal are disk-manufacturer marketroids.

That isn't entirely accurate, unfortunately. Telecom also generally
uses decimal. I'm as unhappy with the current situation as anyone but
it's not just disk makers & marketing folks, even amoung the computing
industry.

Thanks,

Stephen