Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>, <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Remove MySQL Tools from Source?
Date: 2004-04-16 15:33:43
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0404160933010.3677-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> > I always ran one of the 2 scripts (can't remember which one) and after that
> > started checking the dump file, because there were things that didn't get
> > changed correctly[1].
> >
> > [1]: I always remember the first conversion I did. I found out that MySQL
> > accepted dates like 30/2/2000 or 0-0-0000.
> > Very odd.
>
> Yes, MySQL has always accepted those as perfectly valid dates. It's
> quite broken.

the sad thing is that while MySQL implemented a -ansi switch that
supposedly turns on ansi compliance, it only fixes about 1/2 of all the
non-compliance issues. Yet another half-implemented feature... :)

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