On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Ross J. Reedstrom <reeds...@rice.edu> wrote: > 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.
This question has indeed come up before. See: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2005-01/msg00054.php. I suppose that 'balls' as one of a large and growing number of words that has to be used carefully due to the increasingly deficient character of the modern mind. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
