Re: Uhm, so, yeah, speaking of /.

Google.  And, yes, Google use a modified MySQL for its pigeons.

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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:41 PM
To: Jeff Davis
Cc: Scott Ribe; PostgreSQL general
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Uhm, so, yeah, speaking of /.

Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 12:18 -0600, Scott Ribe wrote:
>>> I thought it had to do with letting a form sit around too long and
>>> then /. timing out the state.
>>>
>>> That's probably not good anyway: it should at least give you a real
>>> error message. However, they might not consider that a bug.
>> I didn't let the form sit around at all--didn't think to mention that
>> before. It may well not be related to MySQL at all, the point is
simply that
>> although /. is well-known, gets a lot of hits, and works well enough
for its
>> intended purpose, it is buggy and is NOT an example of what would be
>> acceptable reliability for most "mission critical" applications.
>>
>
> I was agreeing with you.
>
> I think that's what the "invalid form key" error is supposed to mean,
> but it probably happens for all kinds of other cases, too (which is
bad
> and causes confusion).
>
> I agree that /. not a great example of stability or correctness.

Interesting statement. Question: What would be a great example of
stability of correctness?

Joshua D. Drake



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