Re: Re: In pg_test_fsync, use K(1024) rather than k(1000) for write size units.

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

To: Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

Cc: Nicolas Barbier <nicolas.barbier@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-01-27T21:24:18Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Excerpts from Kevin Grittner's message of jue ene 27 13:22:12 -0300 2011:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>  
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytes#Unit_symbol
> > 
> > You can see the chart on the right.
>  
> According to which, the JEDEC standard requires KB and the IEC
> standard requires KiB.  What standard led us to use kB instead?  It
> seems to generally mean 1000 instead of 1024.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#Writing_unit_symbols_and_the_values_of_quantities

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