Re: effective_cache_size vs units

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:06 -0800, Steve Atkins wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>
> > On 12/19/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> I think we should just accept the strings case-insensitively, too.
> >
> > While acknowledging Peter's pedantically-correct points, I say +1 for
> > ease of use.
>
> +1. I spend some time walking people through tuning issues
> by phone or IM. Anything that complicates supporting users or
> frustrates users for no actual benefit is a bad thing.
>
> (And this is unrelated to any theoretical units-aware data type -
> we might well be interested in milliwatts and megawatts in a
> datatype, but in the configuration file we're unlikely to ever
> need to configure things in units of millibits).

Where we at on this?

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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