Another Reason Not to Use MySQL

[Collins Richey]

On 1/10/06, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:07:04PM -0500, David Bandel took 21 lines to write:
> > On 1/10/06, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > > http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=5755
> > >
> > > "Status: Not a Bug"? WTF? It's a feature? Sheesh.
> >
> > Well, hey, if just return a number and don't actually count, it'll be
> > a lot faster.  What do you want, speed _and_ accuracy?
>
> The deal is: "Good, cheap, fast; pick any two." They're only permitting
> me to choose one, fast. If I wanted an estimate or a guess, I can do
> that even faster with a RNG.
>
> I'm still stuck on the "it's not a bug, it's a feature" part.
>

"... estimate of the row count. The estimate is calculated by 8 random
dives ..."

And they consider this POS a production software release? Do they also
make random decisions about which updates to record?

Hmmm, maybe folks should just switch to a real database.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
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