Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code

On 9/3/08, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Asko Oja" <ascoja(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Anything that will reduce potential downtime should be way to go.
>
> That argument didn't seem to me to be worth the electrons to rebut,
> but now that someone else has repeated it, maybe I should. It's
> ludicrous to claim that allowing case insensitivity here will make
> any noticeable improvement in downtime, as there are far more ways
> to screw up your config file than this one. (A config file test mode,
> such as was discussed a few weeks ago, *would* help, but this won't.)
> In the light of Peter's argument about confusion, one could even
> argue that admins putting in wrong values because they got confused
> about the meaning of the units is a downtime risk in itself.

How can the meaning of "gb", "mb", "kb" be uncertain?

But currently writing "kb" *will* load database with wrong values.

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marko