| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
| Cc: | Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, 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: | 2003-06-22 13:03:56 |
| Message-ID: | 3EF5A93C.90309@Yahoo.com |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Also they don't test things they don't support. Is there a test for
> subselects? What about concurrency? Transactional issues? What about
> performance when they have their "transaction support" enabled?
Sure don't they. Like their NUMERIC data type, that can *store* any
precision, but when you actually calculate with it, it converts to
floating point internally ... that's not only a spec violation, in many
countries that's a violation of law if used by a bookkeeping system.
Jan
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