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“allballs” is a valid PostgreSQL time literal for “midnight UTC”
- schoen 6y agoOh, apparently because of the round zeros in "00:00:00.00"? I was first expecting that this would be something weird like Netscape's HTML color parser accepting arbitrary text with an idiosyncratic and surprising interpretation of some of the bits in it. But in this case, this is actually the keyword that the developers chose for this.
- craigkerstiens 6y agoIn the early days of building Heroku Postgres, on Fridays we would do a happy hour at allballs time. It worked out well timing wise for us being on the west coast to be about 4pm/5pm depending on the time of the year.
- gjvc 6y agohttps://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20050124200645.GA6126%40winnie.fuhr.org https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20050124200645.GA6126%... I am dismayed about this actually. It's almost an easter egg. PostgreSQL is too serious for such things, and I prefer it that way. (opinion)
- advisedwang 6y agoLooks like it's been there since (at least) 2000: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/bf566b202ec879d54e411627fb96d5e620d3c246 https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/bf566b202ec879d5...
- uxp100 6y agoThe mailing list thread posted by another user indicates it being present in 1992. References to it being military slang.