| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code |
| Date: | 2008-09-03 14:52:38 |
| Message-ID: | 48BEA4B6.50705@commandprompt.com |
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 16:50 +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Gregory Stark wrote:
>>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Are you really afraid that someone would want to use mb to mean
> millibits ?
>
> As SQL is generally case insensitive, it is quite surprising to most
> people that GUC units are not.
We have had this discussion before, I even submitted a patch to make
them case insensitive. In retrospect I was wrong to submit that patch.
SQL may be case insensitive but units are not. MB != Mb != mb , I don't
think we should encourage in any way for users to do the wrong thing.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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