We should be nice and professional on holiday season but sorry, I
couldn't help myself: at
<http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/12/21/977385850.html>
we can read
"The MySQL packages shipped with Red Hat Linux 7 contained buggy
assembler code. When compiled with optimization
enabled, this code caused the database server to return bad results.
Also, a case where you can crash the database by a
specific, valid query has been fixed. Updated packages are available
from updates.redhat.com. "
Just to make it a little in-topic I would like to 1) thanks Core team
and all hackers and packagers for never putting us into such trouble and
2) issue a vehement cry - PLEASE assure things will stay this way, and
we can reasonably trust every release.
I do believe 2001 will be the big year for PostgreSql.
P.S. RedHat chose to ship a beta version of MySql with RH7, so I believe
that's more their fault than MySql people - but indeed there must be
also a serious flaw in source code.
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