Excerpts from Kevin Grittner's message of jue ene 27 13:22:12 -0300 2011: > 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Writing_unit_symbols_and_the_values_of_quantities -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
