Hannu Krosing escribió: > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 20:01 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Yes there is --- it's the SI. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI#SI_writing_style > > > > I don't know about it being "evil" and punishment, but it's wrong. > > SI defines decimal-based prefixes, where k = kilo = 1000, so our current > conf use is also wrong. Actually, this has been a moving target. For a certain length of time, some standards did accept that k meant 1024 "in computing context"; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix So we're not _absolutely_ wrong here; at least not until KiB are more widely accepted and kB more widely refused to mean 1024 bytes. The relevant standard has been published just this year by ISO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_80000#Binary_prefixes So this is new territory, whereas case-sensitivity of prefixes and unit abbreviations has existed for decades. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
