| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Kevin Grittner <kevin(dot)grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | Nicolas Barbier <nicolas(dot)barbier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: In pg_test_fsync, use K(1024) rather than k(1000) for write size units. |
| Date: | 2011-01-27 21:24:18 |
| Message-ID: | 1296163356-sup-3006@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Kevin Grittner's message of jue ene 27 13:22:12 -0300 2011:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytes#Unit_symbol
> >
> > You can see the chart on the right.
>
> According to which, the JEDEC standard requires KB and the IEC
> standard requires KiB. What standard led us to use kB instead? It
> seems to generally mean 1000 instead of 1024.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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