On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:06 -0800, Steve Atkins wrote: > On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > > > On 12/19/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think we should just accept the strings case-insensitively, too. > > > > While acknowledging Peter's pedantically-correct points, I say +1 for > > ease of use. > > +1. I spend some time walking people through tuning issues > by phone or IM. Anything that complicates supporting users or > frustrates users for no actual benefit is a bad thing. > > (And this is unrelated to any theoretical units-aware data type - > we might well be interested in milliwatts and megawatts in a > datatype, but in the configuration file we're unlikely to ever > need to configure things in units of millibits).
Where we at on this? Joshua D. Drake > > Cheers, > Steve > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
