Re: GUC time unit spelling a bit inconsistent

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Am Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007 00:38 schrieb Gregory Stark:
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>>>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.
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>>To whom? the person writing it?
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>If everyone around here had gotten their way we'd already be in a situation 
>were you could write
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>log_rotation_age = 5m
>log_rotation_size = 5m
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Would it be a bad idea to always support the multi-character 
abbreviations?  So the min, sec, hr, day, wk, mth, yr ar all, to my 
knowledge, unambiguous.  As are kb, mb, gb, tb.  So the above would be:
log_rotation_age = 5min
log_rotation_size = 5mb
edinburgh_distance=5mi

Brian