Re: FIPS 127-2

In article <20647(dot)1048137165(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>dalgoda(at)ix(dot)netcom(dot)com (Mike Castle) writes:
>> Has there been any thought about making use of the NIST SQL Test Suite
>
>Great Bridge tried to run it a couple years ago, and got stymied by the
>fact that the test suite is utterly dependent on schema support; and
>also it assumes autocommit-off behavior IIRC.

That is probably what I was remembering. Could you give me any pointers
on how to find possible emails discussing this attempt in the archives?
I was able to find a single reference via groups.google.com, but couldn't
find anything using the postgresql.org search engine. Who knows, maybe
it wasn't on a postgresql list after all.

>It would be interesting to try again now that 7.3 has cleared those
>first hurdles. Are you volunteering?

I agree it would be interesting.

Right now I have too many other things on my plate, but if I get it
cleared off and get a chance to come back to this, and no one else has
beaten me to it, I just might give it a shot. That's at least 6 months
down the line for me though.

Right now my employer is integrating the tests into our suite for our
own product, which is what made me think of it.

mrc

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