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