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. -------------- Hannu -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
