| From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Viswanatham kirankumar <viswanatham(dot)kirankumar(at)huawei(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [TODO] Process pg_hba.conf keywords as case-insensitive |
| Date: | 2014-07-17 21:54:21 |
| Message-ID: | 53C8460D.2030706@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 18/07/14 04:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de> writes:
>> One place that's been bugging me where case-insensitivity would really
>> make sense is this:
>> # set work_mem = '1mb';
>> ERROR: 22023: invalid value for parameter "work_mem": "1mb"
>> HINT: Valid units for this parameter are "kB", "MB", and "GB".
> Yeah ... there was some pedantry about how "kB" and "KB" mean different
> things. IMO that's mere pedantry, but ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
But kb & kB do mean different things: kilobits vs kilobytes! :-)
(Network throughput seems to be always in bits per second - my broadband
download is quoted at 100Mb/s, whereas I get 12MB/s download at best.)
Cheers,
Gavin
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