It wasn't so much that I believed them, as that I spent an hour digging through PDF's written by guys who look like RMS trying to find
the answer to a yes or no question. Are you aware that these guys don't believe in a yes or no question? There is always "conditions". I am feeling
much better now.
Heh,
Joshua Drake
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Hello,
Sorry guys I made the unbelievable mistake of talking on the #mysql channel today. Can you believe that they actually feel that the fact that you can insert data outside the boundaries of the data type (int for example) and mySQL won't throw an exception is still valid ACID compliance.
There argument is that the application (user) should not have tried to insert bad data. I was completely blown away. The C in ACID explictly states that internal (data type boundaries anyone) AND user defined constraints can not be violated.
I am just flabbergasted. I am going to come back to my safe PostgreSQL
world.
Boy, I'm flabbergasted that you actually believed them ... tsk tsk ...
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