Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jason Earl <jason(dot)earl(at)simplot(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Two weeks to feature freeze
Date: 2003-06-21 04:59:43
Message-ID: 20030621045943.GA4576@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:25:08PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:

Citing Tom Lane:
> > I have been through crash-me in some detail, and it left a
> > very bad taste in my mouth. Don't bother holding it up as an
> > example of good practice.
>
> Every single test in their list is interesting and useful.

At least on the version I just saw there are several results with
Postgres that are weird (table names > 500 chars?). Other things tested
are clearly wrong (things that are = NULL, dates like '00-00-0000');
results for Postgres that are wrong probably because they are trying a
weird syntax. Etc.

Things like that drive the credibility of the whole thing to the floor.
Maybe something like this should exist for Postgres, but it's not
crash-me. Maybe the NIST compliance test is adequate.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La conclusion que podemos sacar de esos estudios es que
no podemos sacar ninguna conclusion de ellos" (Tanenbaum)

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