On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 13:32 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:01 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > Is it possible to add an error hint to the message? Along the line of
> > > "HINT: Did you perhaps get your casing wrong" (with better wording,
> > > of course).
> >
> > Or how about we just make everything case-insensitive -- but
> > case-preserving! -- on Windows only?
>
> Or we could simply add a helpful line to the postgresql.conf.
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*** 24,29 ****
--- 24,33 ---- # settings, which are marked below, require a server shutdown and
restart # to take effect.
+ #
+ # Any memory setting may use a shortened notation such as 1024MB or
1GB.
+ # Please take note of the case next to the unit size.
+ #
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# FILE LOCATIONS
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
> >
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