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First of all, this was on OpenSolaris; I don't think it uses RPM packages at all. Beyond just not crashing, any good database will already have a LOT of code d
by silentbicycle 18y ago
First of all, this was on OpenSolaris; I don't think it uses RPM packages at all.
Beyond just not crashing, any good database will already have a LOT of code dedicated to verifying data consistency. The best thing MySQL can do in that situation is loudly warn about running on known buggy hardware and then continue checking that its data hasn't been corrupted.
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- teej 18y agoMySQL didn't need to do the best thing, it needed to NOT do nothing.
- silentbicycle 18y agoIndeed.
- jmillikin 18y agoThe MySQL bug report is for x64 Linux. OpenSolaris is used as an example of where AMD's bug has been detected and worked around.
- silentbicycle 18y agoI must have misread, sorry.
- elijahbuck 18y agoAnd that's what it did. As the article said, an assertion failed and the application died (instead of silently corrupting your data).