Re: Explain buffers display units.

Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Cc: "<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-15T04:44:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Greg Stark wrote:
> b) Used units of memory -- I formatted them with 3 significant digits
> (unless the unit is bytes or kB where that would be silly). It's just
> what looked best to my eye.
>   

How does this compare with what comes out of pg_size_pretty 
(src/backend/utils/adt/dbsize.c)? I already have code floating around 
that parses the output from pg_size_pretty when I'm slurping in things 
from PostgreSQL, and it's not immediately obvious to me what having a 
format that's similar to but not quite the same as that one is buying here.

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