Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> But of course case insensitivity isn't going to fix that example for you.
> So we're right back at the question of where we should draw the line in
> trying to accept variant input.

Well it's not a perfect precedent but for example, dd accepts:

G    (2^30)
M    (2^20)
k     (2^10)
K    (2^10)
Kb  (10^3)
MB (10^6)
GB (10^9)
b    (512)

I think we're all agreed we want to ignore the KiB crap and make all
our units base 2. And I don't think usin "b" for block makes sense for
us. But the point is that yes, people expect to type "100M" or "1G"
and have that work. Plenty of us do it all the time with dd or other
tools already.

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greg