Re: [BUGS] Integrity check

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: "Prasad, Venkat" <venkat(dot)prasad(at)credit-suisse(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Integrity check
Date: 2009-06-23 13:26:56
Message-ID: 20090623132656.GG7835@fetter.org
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:17:02PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM, David Fetter<david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > There is no general way to do that, apart from creating a test suite
> > specific to your scenario and hoping it doesn't have more bugs that
> > the thing it's testing.
>
> You don't have to tell me that :-)

I didn't imagine I did. :)

> > Sometimes it's good not to agree with the premises underlying a
> > question, and I believe this is one of those times.
>
> Auditors can be a funny breed.

They can, at that, but in this case, they're simply doing the normal
human thing of trying to figure out whether there's a way they can
push off their work to someone or something else. In this case, they
can't.

Cheers,
David.
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