Gregory Stark wrote: > "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If SQL was not a popular standard, we would drop it. You and Alvaro are > > saying that 'm' for meter and 'min' for minute is commonly recognized > > outside the USA/UK, so that is good enough for me to say that the > > existing setup is fine. > > Could you expand on your logic here? And why you disagree with my argument > that which abbreviations are correct is irrelevant in deciding whether we > should accept other abbreviations.
I suppose the idea is that we don't want to be sloppy about accepting just anything in postgresql.conf. I think people are worried that an 'm' in one column might mean something different than an 'm' in another column, and perhaps that is confusing. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
