Am Montag, 18. Juni 2007 19:03 schrieb Tom Lane: > Standard according to whom?
ISO 31 a.k.a. SI > In time-related contexts (eg ISO 8601) I'd expect just "h" "m" and "s". ISO 8601 appears to use a slightly different syntax for writing timespans. I would not object if anyone added support for that. > Since there's no likelihood that anyone would think autovacuum_naptime > is measured in meters, I think insisting that it must not be written as > "1m" is just pedantry. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would initially be confused why anyone would write time in meters, let alone those that might associate it with memory units. In my subjective view (and I acknowledge that we have all been educated in different ways), writing "1m" for a time quantity is meaningless and an error. Standards exist for these things, and we have a fine tradition for choosing standards in favor of randomness. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
