Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address.
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 Scientistphone: 713-348-6166 Connexions http://cnx.orgfax: 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
Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address.
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
Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address.
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. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
