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“Shane Harrelson […] came up with this huge corpus of SQL statements, and he ran them against every database engine that he could get his hands on. We wanted to
by elteto 4y ago
“Shane Harrelson […] came up with this huge corpus of SQL statements, and he ran them against every database engine that he could get his hands on. We wanted to make sure everybody got the same answer, and he managed to segfault every single database engine he tried, including SQLite, except for Postgres. Postgres always ran and gave the correct answer. We were never able to find a fault in that. The Postgres people tell me that we just weren’t trying hard enough. It is possible to fault Postgres, but we were very impressed.”
Did not expect to find such a cool anecdote about Postgres here!
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- brongondwana 4y agoI had some Perl at a previous job which would produce a multi-thousand line SQL statement that was pasted into a phppgadmin screen to get a data set out. Awful workaround but it was smooth and fast. Very nice db to work with