> And who can guarantee that this kind of flaw cannot happen
> anywhere else? There are many, very old regression tests.
> Some of them go back to the roots, Postgres 4.2, and I'm not
> sure anyone ever looked at the expected results lately, if
> they are really what SHOULD be expected. The tenk data for
> example is something where even I don't know where it was
> coming from, and I already joined the Postgres community with
> release 4.2 back in 1994.
Thomas is the regression man, and has checked the output to see that
it was expected in the past. I assume he will regenerate it soon.
A good point is that he can use the old psql to see any changes/breakage
in the backend code, but can _not_ use the new psql to check because the
output is different. That is a good point, and I think the one Jan was
making.
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