On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 11:45 -0700, Joshua Drake wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:36:19 +0100 > Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sure if people want to do it the right way more power to them. What > > you're talking about is punishing people when they don't live up to > > your standards. > > I think I will defer to Andrew and Alvaro's opinion on the matter.
So Andrews opinion was that Mb (meaning Mbit) is different from MB (for megabyte) and that if someone thinks that we define shared buffers in megabits can get confused and order wrong kind of network card ? I can understand Alvaros stance more readily - if we have irrational constraints on what can go into conf file, and people wont listen to reason, then build better tools for helping people to compli to these irrational demands. It has the added benefit of helping to catch reall conf file errors. I did not realize earlier that KB vs kb vs kB vs Kb is a religious issue . I mean, there is no known written standard, which says that Mb is megabit, not megabyte or that you can (or can't) write kilo as K, but some people just believe that kB is "the Way" and allowing people to write kilobytes as KB or kb is evil and should be punished. To me this sounds stupid, but I understand that this is a thing that can't be argued logically and I have better things to do than changing peoples irrational beliefs. Sorry. --------------- Hannu -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
