On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> "The MySQL packages shipped with Red Hat Linux 7 contained buggy
> assembler code. When compiled with optimization enabled, this code
> caused the database server to return bad results. Also, a case where
> you can crash the database by a specific, valid query has been fixed.
> Updated packages are available from updates.redhat.com. "
Mandrake packages for Postgresql are also flawed, in 7.2 at least. When
you cast some strings as timestamps, you can get weird values ("0:10:00"
-> "0:09:60"). It's also a compiler problem.
Fortunately, Postgresql-packaged RPMs for Mandrake don't have this
"feature".
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]protecne.cl>)
