Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code

On 9/3/08, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> 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.

Um, being lazy is *the point* of units!? And being friendly to
newbies. Can there be any other reason for their existence?

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marko