Re: GUC with units, details

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.
>   
Is it worth bothering about the small deviation, if 10000 was meant, but 
10k gives 10240 buffers? Isn't it quite common that systems round config 
values to the next sensible value anyway?

Regards,
Andreas