On 9/3/08, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Uh. So you want force "proper" units in presentations at the price > >> of everyday admin operations? Does not seem like a sensible tradeoff. > > > It didn't to anyone else when Peter wrote the current version either, but > as > > the person willing to actually do the work and write the code Peter got to > > make the decision. Nobody else stepped up to do the work to change it and > we > > can't exactly force Peter to do work he doesn't agree with. > > > It's not that, in my mind: it's that Peter feels more strongly about it > than the rest of us. This proposal has come up before and he's > successfully argued it down each time. He does have a point about there > being some potential for confusion; and the arguments on the other side > are not much better than "I'm lazy". Being lazy myself, I'd prefer a > case insensitive implementation; but I don't feel strongly enough about > it to want to override Peter's opinion.
Um, being lazy is *the point* of units!? And being friendly to newbies. Can there be any other reason for their existence? -- marko -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
