| From: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)protecne(dot)cl> |
| Cc: | Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)albourne(dot)com>, General PostgreSQL discussion list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: red hat/mysql fiasco |
| Date: | 2000-12-21 19:58:08 |
| Message-ID: | 3A4260D0.5D3336A9@wgcr.org |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> 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".
Could be a bad -O setting. The way RPM works in the build process
(which is, IMHO, not very good) means that typically the spec file that
controls the build sets the compilation options to include potentially
faulty combinations with certain programs.
Mandrake is known for aggressive -O settings.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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