Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
>  
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytes#Unit_symbol
> > 
> > You can see the chart on the right.
>  
> According to which, the JEDEC standard requires KB and the IEC
> standard requires KiB.  What standard led us to use kB instead?  It
> seems to generally mean 1000 instead of 1024.
        
I assume Peter did lots of research when he added 'kB' to
postgresql.conf.

> > However, I agree 'kB' is the best.
>  
> Why?

No idea.

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