Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of GUC units code

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> It's good as a joke, but what if the user says '1024b'?  Does it mean
>>> 1024 blocks or one kilobyte?  If blocks, what size are we talking, the
>>> usual 512 bytes, or our BLCKSZ?
>
>> For what guc would you find a unit of posix-style "blocks" relevant?!
>
> The point isn't whether it's relevant, the point is that there's a
> fairly serious doubt as to what the user thought it meant.

My point was that we don't accept any form of "b" today and nobody has
suggested we should.

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