| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: effective_cache_size vs units |
| Date: | 2006-12-19 22:10:22 |
| Message-ID: | 200612192310.23992.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The only value to being case-sensitive in this area is to allow
> upper/lower case with different meanings, but I don't see us using
> that, so why do we bother caring about the case?
Because the units are what they are.
In broader terms, we may one day want to have other units or a
units-aware data type, so introducing incompatibilities now would be
unfortunate.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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