| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Luke Koops <luke(dot)koops(at)entrust(dot)com>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4958: Stats collector hung on WaitForMultipleObjectsEx while attempting to recv a datagram |
| Date: | 2012-08-21 20:30:34 |
| Message-ID: | 9323.1345581034@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar ago 21 14:54:28 -0400 2012:
>> (BTW, I think commit 9b63e9869ffaa4d6d3e8bf45086a765d8f310f1c contains
>> a thinko in one of the comments: shouldn't "a crock of the first
>> water" be "a crock of the first order"?)
> I was interested by that phrase when I saw the commit, and as usual when
> I see a phrase from Tom that looks like it might mean something
> interesting, I looked it up. Apparently "of the first water" means "of
> the highest quality" or "of the most extreme kind":
> http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/of+the+first+water
Yeah, that was intentional not a typo. I think modern usage of this
phrase is largely confined to gemstones though, as in "diamond of the
first water".
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/137550.html
Meanwhile, back at the ranch: I'm fine with applying that patch now that
it's had some field testing.
regards, tom lane
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