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"they only drink coffee at dec"

From
Michael Fuhr
Date:
From src/backend/tcop/postgres.c:
   appendStringInfo(&str,                    "!\t%ld/%ld [%ld/%ld] filesystem blocks in/out\n",
r.ru_inblock- Save_r.ru_inblock,   /* they only drink coffee at dec */                    r.ru_oublock -
Save_r.ru_oublock,                   r.ru_inblock, r.ru_oublock);
 

Been there as far back as CVS goes.  Will I find other goodies by
poking around? :-)

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

Re: "they only drink coffee at dec"

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> From src/backend/tcop/postgres.c:
>     /* they only drink coffee at dec */

I never did figure out what that meant.  Anyone know?

> Been there as far back as CVS goes.  Will I find other goodies by
> poking around? :-)

There's a few jokes ... not that many ...
        regards, tom lane

Re: "they only drink coffee at dec"

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> > From src/backend/tcop/postgres.c:
> >     /* they only drink coffee at dec */
> 
> I never did figure out what that meant.  Anyone know?
> 
> > Been there as far back as CVS goes.  Will I find other goodies by
> > poking around? :-)
> 
> There's a few jokes ... not that many ...

And, of course, my favorite, which is now gone because we fixed it (*snif*):
       _bt_getstackbuf: my bits moved right off the end of the world!

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Re: "they only drink coffee at dec"

From
"Marc G. Fournier"
Date:
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
>> From src/backend/tcop/postgres.c:
>>     /* they only drink coffee at dec */
>
> I never did figure out what that meant.  Anyone know?
>
>> Been there as far back as CVS goes.  Will I find other goodies by
>> poking around? :-)
>
> There's a few jokes ... not that many ...

Be almost cute to add a section to the web site that links to cvsweb to
point out these ... making sure to link to the "oldest version in cvs that
contains it" ...

----
Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664

Re: "they only drink coffee at dec"

From
"Dann Corbit"
Date:
From src/backend/tcop/postgres.c:
>>     /* they only drink coffee at dec */

Tcop might be pronounced "tea-cop"

IOW, 'We are the tea police."

In order to be sure what it means, I think you would have to ask the
original author of the quote.
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Marc G.
Fournier
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 7:57 AM
To: Tom Lane
Cc: Michael Fuhr; pgsql-www@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] "they only drink coffee at dec"

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
>> From src/backend/tcop/postgres.c:
>>     /* they only drink coffee at dec */
>
> I never did figure out what that meant.  Anyone know?
>
>> Been there as far back as CVS goes.  Will I find other goodies by
>> poking around? :-)
>
> There's a few jokes ... not that many ...

Be almost cute to add a section to the web site that links to cvsweb to
point out these ... making sure to link to the "oldest version in cvs
that
contains it" ...

----
Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services
(http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ:
7615664

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Re: "they only drink coffee at dec"

From
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Date:
>>From src/backend/tcop/postgres.c:
> 
>     appendStringInfo(&str,
>                      "!\t%ld/%ld [%ld/%ld] filesystem blocks in/out\n",
>                      r.ru_inblock - Save_r.ru_inblock,
>     /* they only drink coffee at dec */
>                      r.ru_oublock - Save_r.ru_oublock,
>                      r.ru_inblock, r.ru_oublock);
> 
> Been there as far back as CVS goes.  Will I find other goodies by
> poking around? :-)

#define COPYBUFSIZ 8192                 /* size doesn't matter */

Is vaguely amusing :P

Chris