Re: Uhm, so, yeah, speaking of /. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Uhm, so, yeah, speaking of /.
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Msg-id 1180549907.26915.121.camel@dogma.v10.wvs
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In response to Re: Uhm, so, yeah, speaking of /.  (Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@killerbytes.com>)
Responses Re: Uhm, so, yeah, speaking of /.
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On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 12:18 -0600, Scott Ribe wrote:
> > I thought it had to do with letting a form sit around too long and
> > then /. timing out the state.
> >
> > That's probably not good anyway: it should at least give you a real
> > error message. However, they might not consider that a bug.
>
> I didn't let the form sit around at all--didn't think to mention that
> before. It may well not be related to MySQL at all, the point is simply that
> although /. is well-known, gets a lot of hits, and works well enough for its
> intended purpose, it is buggy and is NOT an example of what would be
> acceptable reliability for most "mission critical" applications.
>

I was agreeing with you.

I think that's what the "invalid form key" error is supposed to mean,
but it probably happens for all kinds of other cases, too (which is bad
and causes confusion).

I agree that /. not a great example of stability or correctness.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis




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