On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 16:22:51 -0700,
operationsengineer1@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> if bad data is submitted, is there something going on
> "behind the scenes" to scrub the bad data and cause
> the query to fail instead of run with the bad data?
> how does the the system know the data is bad data?
The type input routines will reject bad data. I wouldn't feel too safe about
handling really large strings without a problem in all cases, but invalid
syntax shouldn't cause anything but the transaction to abort.