Settings in postgresql.conf are currently case-insensitive. Except
for the units.
And, of course, filenames when you are using a case-sensitive
filesystem. Because these are things that are defined by some
convention other than the ones the PGDG made up. Since units fall
into that category, it seems to me that we're stuck with using
external conventions.
Just a thought... since there are very few (if any) places where a
user would specify a variable in terms of bits (kilobits, megabits,
gigabits), we could make the units case-insensitive and assume that
kb, gb, and mb (and all case variants) refer to some number of bytes.
If a user wants to specify a variable in terms of bits, he would have
to spell out the units completely, as in "4 gigabits", "20 kilobits",
or "16 megabits".
-- Korry
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