Re: Berkeley DB RIP

Tony van der Hoff wrote:

The DB should indeed ensure the integrity of the data it contains. Whether
that extends to ensuring that data is entered correctly is rather moot.
Personally I'd consider that to be beyond its remit.


The truncation effect is quite common in databases. When entering data you
(i.e. the client app) are expected to know the field length. As far as I
know It's always been like that although there are probably exceptions. My
experience goes back to using Retrieve 4GL for DOS ... ahhh ... happy
memories ;-)

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