Martijn Tonies wrote:

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>>At 07:58 AM 5/8/2004, Geoff Worboys wrote:
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>>>>>If corruption occurs due to bugs, the bugs need to be fixed.
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>>>...
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>>>>Quite. And does this also include "logical" corruption, that
>>>>is, when the database gets into some inconsistant state at a
>>>>high level? It seems that there are a few known issues of
>>>>this sort. Are they to be considered as simply bugs?
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>>Well, they're certainly not features. There is some disagreement
>>in my family about adding constraints to a populated database. I
>>think the system should check that the constraint is consistent
>>with the state of the database before the constraint is added. My
>>beloved thinks that's unreasonable - slow etc.
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>FWIW, I agree with Ann here.
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FWIW, I do too, but I don't suppose it's worth much! :-)

Jonathan Neve.


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