Re: kilobyte unit spelled "K bytes"

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Pg Docs <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: kilobyte unit spelled "K bytes"
Date: 2019-08-30 00:14:21
Message-ID: 20190830001421.GB1892@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:15:51PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> In the documentation there is a single instance of “K bytes” being used to
> denote kilobytes (kB or kilobyte used everywhere else), which isn’t really
> correct as the k should be lowercased. The attached diff fixes this to make it
> consistent with the rest of the documentation. I opted for kilobytes rather
> than kB to match the rest of the document in question.

From doc/, we have that:
$ git grep kB | wc -l
40
$ git grep kilobytes | wc -l
21

Now, your choice makes sense to me, because 4 lines down the maximum
refers to "megabyte". Do others have opinions to offer?
--
Michael

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