| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| 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: | 2007-08-31 18:55:47 |
| Message-ID: | 46D86433.6030303@dunslane.net |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> 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
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