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  1. Doc: Replace mention to "K bytes" by "kilobytes" in textsearch.sgml

  1. kilobyte unit spelled "K bytes"

    Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> — 2019-08-29T10:15:51Z

    In the documentation there is a single instance of “K bytes” being used to
denote kilobytes (kB or kilobyte used everywhere else), which isn’t really
correct as the k should be lowercased.  The attached diff fixes this to make it
consistent with the rest of the documentation.  I opted for kilobytes rather
than kB to match the rest of the document in question.

cheers ./daniel

  2. Re: kilobyte unit spelled "K bytes"

    Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> — 2019-08-30T00:14:21Z

    On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:15:51PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> In the documentation there is a single instance of “K bytes” being used to
> denote kilobytes (kB or kilobyte used everywhere else), which isn’t really
> correct as the k should be lowercased.  The attached diff fixes this to make it
> consistent with the rest of the documentation.  I opted for kilobytes rather
> than kB to match the rest of the document in question.

From doc/, we have that:
$ git grep kB | wc -l
40
$ git grep kilobytes | wc -l
21

Now, your choice makes sense to me, because 4 lines down the maximum
refers to "megabyte".  Do others have opinions to offer?
--
Michael

  3. Re: kilobyte unit spelled "K bytes"

    Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com> — 2019-08-30T00:34:48Z

    Related:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160730001838.GA22405%40momjian.us#ef946043c336d66e717e0e6e96639f92

Although, 3 years passed since then. I constantly see "kiB", "MiB", etc in
many discussions. And some very popular programs already migrated to it.

For example, in Linux, "top" uses "KiB Mem", "KiB Swap".

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 3:16 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:

> In the documentation there is a single instance of “K bytes” being used to
> denote kilobytes (kB or kilobyte used everywhere else), which isn’t really
> correct as the k should be lowercased.  The attached diff fixes this to
> make it
> consistent with the rest of the documentation.  I opted for kilobytes
> rather
> than kB to match the rest of the document in question.
>
> cheers ./daniel
>
>

  4. Re: kilobyte unit spelled "K bytes"

    Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> — 2019-08-30T08:37:26Z

    > On 30 Aug 2019, at 02:34, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Related: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160730001838.GA22405%40momjian.us#ef946043c336d66e717e0e6e96639f92 <https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160730001838.GA22405@momjian.us#ef946043c336d66e717e0e6e96639f92>
> 
> Although, 3 years passed since then. I constantly see "kiB", "MiB", etc in many discussions. And some very popular programs already migrated to it.

Not sure what you imply with that, the consensus from that thread was to not
change to KiB/KB etc?

cheers ./daniel

  5. Re: kilobyte unit spelled "K bytes"

    Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> — 2019-09-03T04:07:17Z

    On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:37:26AM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Not sure what you imply with that, the consensus from that thread was to not
> change to KiB/KB etc?

Yes, that's what I recall as well on the matter.  I have just applied
your original patch on HEAD.
--
Michael