Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code

Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> "Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Uh. So you want force "proper" units in presentations at the price
>> of everyday admin operations? Does not seem like a sensible tradeoff.

> It didn't to anyone else when Peter wrote the current version either, but as
> the person willing to actually do the work and write the code Peter got to
> make the decision. Nobody else stepped up to do the work to change it and we
> can't exactly force Peter to do work he doesn't agree with.

It's not that, in my mind: it's that Peter feels more strongly about it
than the rest of us. This proposal has come up before and he's
successfully argued it down each time. He does have a point about there
being some potential for confusion; and the arguments on the other side
are not much better than "I'm lazy". Being lazy myself, I'd prefer a
case insensitive implementation; but I don't feel strongly enough about
it to want to override Peter's opinion.

regards, tom lane