Am Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007 00:10 schrieb Gregory Stark: > Afaict nobody has expressed a single downside to accepting other > abbreviations.
The two downsides I can see are that it would confuse users (even if it apparently wouldn't confuse *you*), and that there is a chance that the configuration system would work differently from other PostgreSQL components or parts. For example modules like earth distance or other astronomy, physics, or geography modules might all have to create their own sets of "clearly unambiguous" unit sets for themselves. Few or none of these types of modules exist yet, of course. I would like to have a units-aware data type that you can use for storing and computing with measurements, and I would like to be able to use that same type for dealing with configuration quantities. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
