| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: effective_cache_size vs units |
| Date: | 2006-12-19 08:36:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20061219083642.GB9627@svr2.hagander.net |
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:56:22PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:46 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > > Oh, you mean MB vs Mb. Man, it had to be that simple :)
> >
> > ISTM we had discussed whether guc.c should accept units strings in
> > a case-insensitive manner, and the forces of pedantry won the first
> > round. Shall we reopen that argument?
>
> I don't think that anyone is going to think, oh I am using 1000 Mega Bit
> of ram. Mb == MB in this case. That being said, it is documented and I
> don't know that it makes that much difference as long as the
> documentation is clear.
Is it possible to add an error hint to the message? Along the line of
"HINT: Did you perhaps get your casing wrong" (with better wording, of
course).
//Magnus
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