| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, Alex <alex(at)meerkatsoft(dot)com>, "Lada 'Ray' Lostak" <ray(at)unreal64(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_generate_sequence and info_schema patch (Was: SELECT Question) |
| Date: | 2004-02-02 07:31:28 |
| Message-ID: | 29820.1075707088@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> folklore has it that Mariner II was lost to exactly such a bug).
> Ouch -- got the point.
BTW, I think I was beating you over the head with an urban legend.
Some idle googling revealed the true facts of the Mariner failure:
http://www.rchrd.com/Misc-Texts/Famous_Fortran_Errors
Nonetheless, it's well established that loops should be able to
do nothing when doing nothing is called for. Even Fortran got the
point after awhile...
regards, tom lane
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