Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

From: Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>, John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>, Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?
Date: 2006-05-18 19:55:52
Message-ID: 446CD148.5040709@gmx.at
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Thomas Hallgren wrote:
>
>> Couldn't we just install something that replaced invalid dates with a
>> randomly generated but otherwise correct dates? That way they would
>> become completely invisible. No one could even tell that the date was
>> invalid to start with.
>
> No we can't, because then we are taking an invalid date, which is
> potentially valid data (to the user) and modifying it to a valid date
> that is indeed invalid data.

I think you should have read a `;-)' after Thomas' suggestion.

;-)

Best Regards,
Michael

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