Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > 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 That seems to agree with the other page that k means 10^3, not 2^10 -- or am I missing something? We are treating it as 2^10 in our GUCs, aren't we? -Kevin
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