Greg Stark wrote:
We can always continue tweak the details of the format such as adding spaces before the units to make it similar to the pg_size_pretty(). I'm not sure I like the idea of making it exactly equivalent because pg_size_pretty() doesn't print any decimals so it's pretty imprecise for smaller values.
That's a reasonable position; I'd be fine with upgrading the requirements for a text scraping app to handle either "8 kB" or "1.356 kB" if it wanted to share some code to consume either type of info, if all you did was throw a space in there. I'd suggest either removing the PB units support from your implementation, or adding it to pg_size_pretty, just to keep those two routines more like one another in terms of what they might produce as output given the same scale of input.
Also, a quick comment in the new code explaining what you just said above might be helpful, just to preempt a similar "how is this different from pg_size_pretty?" question from popping up again one day.
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