| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> |
| Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Richard Guo <guofenglinux(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Why our Valgrind reports suck |
| Date: | 2026-06-12 13:50:01 |
| Message-ID: | 1619237.1781272201@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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=?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> writes:
> On 2026-Jun-12, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>> On Jun 10, 2026, at 22:53, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> or, actually, the bug's not so old: apparently I broke it in
>>> e78d1d6d4. Where's my brown paper bag?
>> Oh man, now I want to know what this references!
> Is this what you mean?
> https://hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/brown-paper-bag-bug.html
Yeah, pretty much, though Linus didn't get the phrase out of nowhere.
When I use it I tend to think of sports fans whose chosen team is so
bad that they feel a need to wear a bag over their heads when
attending games. Handy example here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Browns/comments/1g7y29b/going_to_the_game_today_bringing_a_blank_brown/
regards, tom lane
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