Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > >I've never been a fan of "regression tests" in the narrow sense of > >"let's test for this specific mistake we made once". If you can devise > >a test that catches a class of errors including the one you actually > >made, that's a different story, because it's much more likely to catch a > >real future problem. > > Heh. See what I do is envision a future 10 years from now when the guy > who truly understands the planner and executor (Tom) has long gone and > the rest of us poor buggers keep on trying to change and fix things, > thereby recreating all these 10 year old bugs :)
That's why someone else should be studying the planner and executor code right now ... I've long wanted to start doing it but I've been always distracted with other minutia ... -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/DXLWNGRJD34J "PHP is what I call the "Dumb Monkey" language. [A]ny dumb monkey can code something in PHP. Python takes actual thought to produce something useful." (J. Drake) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
