Skip site navigation (1)
Skip section navigation (2)
Peripheral Links
Header And Logo
|
Site Navigation
Re: enum types and binary queries
- From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
- To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
- Cc: "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
- Subject: Re: enum types and binary queries
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:55:47 -0400
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
This is a furfy that has been raised before and explained before.
Of course, as usual I misspelled it, the word is "furphy". I didn't realise that it was an Australianism. It means more or less "a red herring". Wikipedia says that it is a term particularly popular in Australian politics, and as some people know my late father was a noted practitioner of that art ;-)
cheers andrew
- References:
- enum types and binary queries
- From: Merlin Moncure
- Re: enum types and binary queries
- From: Tom Lane
- Re: enum types and binary queries
- From: Merlin Moncure
- Re: enum types and binary queries
- From: Decibel!
- Re: enum types and binary queries
- From: Andrew Dunstan
- Re: enum types and binary queries
- From: Decibel!
- Re: enum types and binary queries
- From: Andrew Dunstan
- enum types and binary queries
- Prev by Date: Re: Password requirement in windows installer
- Next by Date: Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files
- Previous by thread: Re: enum types and binary queries
- Next by thread: synchronous_commit: Developer's View
- Indexes: