Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE661337BD6 for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 12:50:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21415-06 for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 15:49:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail1.hosting.digiweb.ie (mail1.hosting.digiweb.ie [89.234.64.49]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF34B13364DE for ; Tue, 3 May 2011 12:49:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 6696 invoked by uid 399); 3 May 2011 15:49:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (ray@teladesign.ie@86.43.79.16) by mail1.hosting.digiweb.ie with SMTP; 3 May 2011 15:49:51 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 86.43.79.16 Message-ID: <4DC0241D.2050105@iol.ie> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 16:49:49 +0100 From: Raymond O'Donnell Reply-To: rod@iol.ie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Can we Flush the Postgres Shared Memory ? References: <20110503145430.GG2246@hermes.hilbert.loc> <20710.1304435299@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <20710.1304435299@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110503-0, 03/05/2011), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201105/88 X-Sequence-Number: 175520 On 03/05/2011 16:08, Tom Lane wrote: > Karsten Hilbert writes: >> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:33:34PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: >>> If you post here, the above disclaimer is not effective. Right now >>> your words are being copied across the internet... > >> By typing / selecting a public list address "written consent >> of the author" can be assumed to exist implicitely ;-) > > Nonetheless, corporate lawyers who insist on such disclaimers on all > email are idiots, and make their company's employees look like idiots > as well. Every disclaimer on obviously-public mail hastens the day > when such disclaimers will have no legal force whatsoever (if indeed > there's any left to them now). I don't want to start a flame war, but did they every have any legal force in the first place? Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@iol.ie