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Re: GUC time unit spelling a bit inconsistent

Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>

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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-06-20T21:25:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> 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.
> 
> If we're not going to make the units-parsing any more friendly, for
> gosh sakes let's at least make it give a HINT about what it will accept.

yeah a proper HINT seem like a very reasonable compromise ...


Stefan