| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, 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" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code |
| Date: | 2008-09-03 15:37:29 |
| Message-ID: | 1220456249.12162.25.camel@huvostro |
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On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 08:20 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
> > I don't think worrying about the message we send to users is reasonable.
> > We can take responsibilty for the messages we output but punishing our
> > users to teach them a lesson is being actively user-hostile
>
> There is no arguing that MB != Mb;
The whole point of this discussion is, that mostly people expect
MB == Mb = mb == mB, especially if they see weird constructs like kB
used (k for Kilo, or actually Kibi).
> nor is there anything user-hostile behind the idea of doing it the right way.
I was not trying to expose some sinister plan, just pointing out that
users seldom expect that kind of surprise.
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Hannu
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