Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?
Michael Paesold <mpaesold@gmx.at>
From: Michael Paesold <mpaesold@gmx.at>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Thomas Hallgren <thomas@tada.se>, John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>, Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-05-18T19:55:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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