On 18/07/14 04:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de> writes:
>> One place that's been bugging me where case-insensitivity would really
>> make sense is this:
>> # set work_mem = '1mb';
>> ERROR: 22023: invalid value for parameter "work_mem": "1mb"
>> HINT: Valid units for this parameter are "kB", "MB", and "GB".
> Yeah ... there was some pedantry about how "kB" and "KB" mean different
> things. IMO that's mere pedantry, but ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
But kb & kB do mean different things: kilobits vs kilobytes! :-)
(Network throughput seems to be always in bits per second - my broadband
download is quoted at 100Mb/s, whereas I get 12MB/s download at best.)
Cheers,
Gavin