Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: alvis(at)piladzi-2(dot)biz
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Two weeks to feature freeze
Date: 2003-06-21 16:23:42
Message-ID: 26105.1056212622@sss.pgh.pa.us
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<alvis(at)piladzi-2(dot)biz> writes:
> As far as I can see NIST (http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/sql_form.htm)
> tests are used *only* for testing SQL92 conformance.
> Latest available test suite version 6, dated 12/1996.
> Are you using about 6-7 years old test suite?
> Perhaps I am wrong, I would be happy If someone could point me up-to-date
> info about NIST conformance testing.

AFAIK, the NIST abandoned that project years ago, so there isn't any
more-up-to-date test suite available. Not sure this is a big problem,
since SQL92 is not a moving target. It'd be nice if they had kept
working and developed tests for the non-entry-level features, but
they didn't.

regards, tom lane

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