On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:00:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> > > wrote: > >> On 03/18/2011 09:18 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > >>> "all balls" seems like a colloquialism best avoided in our documentation. > > >> It's already there, although I agree it's infelicitous. > > > I vote for taking it out. I think that could be interpreted as > > inappropriate. > > IIRC, the pre-existing usage refers to time 00:00:00. It does not seem > especially useful to adopt the same terminology for network addresses; > that's more likely to confuse people than anything else. >
And just as a historical etymological note for the list, in case anyone finds this in the archives: "all balls" referring to all zeros setting shows up as NASA speak in Apollo era transcripts, for any sort of "all zeros" setting - the one I remember off hand was actually a angle setting for an engine firing for Apollo 13. It may have been milspeak at one time as well. The more modern interpretation seems to be a contraction of "all balls, no brains", so would in fact be a little off for a changelog entry. Ross "etymologically yours" Reedstrom -- Ross Reedstrom, Ph.D. reeds...@rice.edu Systems Engineer & Admin, Research Scientist phone: 713-348-6166 Connexions http://cnx.org fax: 713-348-3665 Rice University MS-375, Houston, TX 77005 GPG Key fingerprint = F023 82C8 9B0E 2CC6 0D8E F888 D3AE 810E 88F0 BEDE -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
