Alban Hertroys wrote: > >There's also a Debian package which comes with a text format > >units database: > > > > http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/units > > > >The original source for that: > > > >This package was put together by me, James Troup <james@xxxxxxxxxx>, > >from the GNU sources, which I obtained from > >sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/gnu/units-1.54.tar.gz. > > I don't consider that tool very reliable[1]. A number of their > concepts are probably usable though. I have it's source in my source > tree (FreeBSD), so ample opportunity to peek. > > [1] It doesn't correctly convert °C to °F or vv, that was one of the > first things I tried. Seems it's easy to misuse it. You need tempF(x) and tempC notation for converting absolute temperature differences: You have: tempF(212) You want: tempC 100 -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
