Re: [GENERAL] red hat/mysql fiasco

Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Alessio Bragadini wrote: > Mandrake packages for Postgresql are also flawed, in 7.2 at least. When > you cast some strings as timestamps, you can get weird values ("0:10:00" > -> "0:09:60"). It's also a compiler problem. > Fortunately, Postgresql-pack

Re: [GENERAL] red hat/mysql fiasco

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Alessio Bragadini wrote: > "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,

Re: [GENERAL] red hat/mysql fiasco

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:23:32AM -0500, Mike Sears wrote: > > [Actually, the beta version of the gcc compiler that RH is now shipping > > with doesn't have this particular long long bug, but the latest official > > release of gcc does.] > > actually I had that problem w/ assembler errors in my

Re: [GENERAL] red hat/mysql fiasco

> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:46:33AM +0200, Alessio Bragadini wrote: > > "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. > > > P.S. RedHat chose to ship

Re: [GENERAL] red hat/mysql fiasco

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:46:33AM +0200, Alessio Bragadini wrote: > "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. > P.S. RedHat chose to ship a beta vers

[GENERAL] red hat/mysql fiasco

We should be nice and professional on holiday season but sorry, I couldn't help myself: at we can read "The MySQL packages shipped with Red Hat Linux 7 contained buggy assembler code. When compiled with optimization enabled, this code cause