Re: FIPS 127-2

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Castle [mailto:dalgoda@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 8:58 AM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FIPS 127-2
>
>
> In article <20647.1048137165@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
> Tom Lane  <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >dalgoda@ix.netcom.com (Mike Castle) writes:
> >> Has there been any thought about making use of the NIST SQL Test
> >> Suite
> >
> >Great Bridge tried to run it a couple years ago, and got
> stymied by the
> >fact that the test suite is utterly dependent on schema support; and
> >also it assumes autocommit-off behavior IIRC.
>
> That is probably what I was remembering.  Could you give me
> any pointers on how to find possible emails discussing this
> attempt in the archives? I was able to find a single
> reference via groups.google.com, but couldn't find anything
> using the postgresql.org search engine.  Who knows, maybe it
> wasn't on a postgresql list after all.
>
> >It would be interesting to try again now that 7.3 has cleared those
> >first hurdles.  Are you volunteering?
>
> I agree it would be interesting.
>
> Right now I have too many other things on my plate, but if I
> get it cleared off and get a chance to come back to this, and
> no one else has beaten me to it, I just might give it a shot.
>  That's at least 6 months down the line for me though.
>
> Right now my employer is integrating the tests into our suite
> for our own product, which is what made me think of it.

Here is all the NIST stuff in an archive:
ftp://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/nist.ZIP

I once suggested using the NIST tests for ecpg testing.