Re: Notes on converting from MySQL 5.0.x to PostgreSQL

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:41:53PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:39:04AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It might be worth pointing out that mysql's replication falls
> >> over if you so much as look at it crosseyed.  I have not had to
> >> use it for production purposes, but I can tell you that the mysql
> >> replication regression tests fail ... irreproducibly of course
> >> ...  almost one time in two in Red Hat's build environment.
>
> > Are those tests, or at least descriptions of them, available?
>
> Sure, it's just the standard "make test" sequence in mysql's source.

Uh oh.  I'm a little worried about writing tests based on GPLed code
for Slony-I or other replication systems.  Might these need to be
clean-roomed?

Cheers,
D
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