Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document the all-balls IPv6 address.
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Msg-id 29251.1300503619@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@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


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