| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: custom function for converting human readable sizes to bytes |
| Date: | 2015-12-30 16:33:22 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaNoT7uGjsbiBFUQgacHk2LZrypMKJVVUgp5r197YUvTg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Shulgin, Oleksandr
<oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de> wrote:
> I didn't check out earlier versions of this patch, but the latest one still
> changes pg_size_pretty() to emit PB suffix.
>
> I don't think it is worth it to throw a number of changes together like
> that. We should focus on adding pg_size_bytes() first and make it
> compatible with both pg_size_pretty() and existing GUC units: that is
> support suffixes up to TB and make sure they have the meaning of powers of
> 2^10, not 10^3. Re-using the table present in guc.c would be a plus.
>
> Next, we could think about adding handling of PB suffix on input and output,
> but I don't see a big problem if that is emitted as 1024TB or the user has
> to specify it as 1024TB in a GUC or argument to pg_size_bytes(): an minor
> inconvenience only.
+1 to everything in this email.
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Robert Haas
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