| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)protecne(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)albourne(dot)com> |
| Cc: | General PostgreSQL discussion list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: red hat/mysql fiasco |
| Date: | 2000-12-21 16:50:00 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0012211344460.29918-100000@aguila.protecne.cl |
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> "The MySQL packages shipped with Red Hat Linux 7 contained buggy
> assembler code. When compiled with optimization enabled, this code
> caused the database server to return bad results. Also, a case where
> you can crash the database by a specific, valid query has been fixed.
> Updated packages are available from updates.redhat.com. "
Mandrake packages for Postgresql are also flawed, in 7.2 at least. When
you cast some strings as timestamps, you can get weird values ("0:10:00"
-> "0:09:60"). It's also a compiler problem.
Fortunately, Postgresql-packaged RPMs for Mandrake don't have this
"feature".
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]protecne(dot)cl>)
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