| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Bort, Paul" <pbort(at)tmwsystems(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: GUC with units, details |
| Date: | 2006-07-26 16:36:51 |
| Message-ID: | 200607261836.52175.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Bort, Paul wrote:
> The Linux kernel changed to the standard years ago. And that's just a
> few more lines of code than PostgreSQL. (
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/340 and others )
For your entertainment, here are the usage numbers from the linux-2.6.17
kernel:
kilobyte (-i) 82
kibibyte (-i) 2
megabyte (-i) 98
mebibyte (-i) 0
gigabyte (-i) 32
gibibyte (-i) 0
KB 1151
kB 407
KiB 181
MB 3830
MiB 298
GB 815
GiB 17
So I remain unconvinced.
Of course, your general point is a good one. If there are actually
systems using this, it might be worth considering. But if not, then
we're just going to confuse people.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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