Re: GUC with units, details

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/