Ouch! I just remembered locale and character sets and encoding. I can't even begin to get my head around what to do with those, unless it is just to make the tool agnostic regarding those issues and test against a variety of setups. Does that seem adequate?
I flash back to my first attempts to use LIKE 'XXX%' under PostgreSQL... -Kevin >>> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/13/05 12:01 AM >>> Reproducibility is way harder than it might seem at first glance. What's worse, the obvious techniques for creating reproducible numbers amount to eliminating variables that are important in the real world. (One of which is size of database --- some people care about performance of DBs that fit comfortably in RAM...) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
