> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 2:35 PM > To: Dann Corbit > Cc: Manfred Koizar; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: TESTING (was: RE: [HACKERS] More vacuum.c refactoring ) > > > "Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> --- and no I have zero confidence that passing the regression > >> tests proves anything, because all those prior bugs passed > >> the regression tests. > > > Then why didn't those bugs get added to the regression? > > Because there wasn't any reasonable way to make them reproducible. > > The set of things we can test in the regression tests is only > a small fraction of the interesting properties of Postgres. > This is unfortunate but ranting about "standard practice" > doesn't change it. > > > I seem to recall that someone was porting the NIST suite to > > PostgreSQL. What ever happened to that effort? > > It was done and we fixed a couple of bugs based on it (the > one I can think of offhand had to do with semantics of > aggregate functions in sub-selects). I don't think there's > anything more to be learned there.
It is reassuring to know that it passed with flying colors. Can I get the ported version? I would love to play with it. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
