Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database
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Msg-id 45F008E3.90106@commandprompt.com
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In response to OT: Canadian Tax Database  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Responses Re: OT: Canadian Tax Database  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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Richard Huxton wrote:
> http://www.thestar.com/News/article/189175
>
> "For instance, in some cases the field for the social insurance number
> was instead filled in with a birth date."
>
> Unbelievable. Sixty years of electronic computing, fifty years use in
> business and the "professionals" who built the tax system for a
> wealthy democratic country didn't use data types.

This is Unbelievable? This is commonplace.

Joshua D. Drake


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