Correction. Seaborne, Andy wrote: . . . > Dan Connolly wrote: > . . . > >>I was going to say that we have a spec, tests and >>implementations, but I'm not at all sure that our test >>harness captures this aspect of the design; I think >>our tests would say that a minimal answer passes, >>since the test harness is based on graph matching, >>and a lean graph matches a redundant graph. > > > A result set is encoded as a graph then the equivalence test is applied. It > does mean SELECT/SELECT DISTINCT are the same. Not true. The result set encoded as a graph format can distingish this. We just arrange that tests don't depend on it the fact unless explicitly intended. A SELECT auto-DISTINCT implementation is correct. AndyReceived on Tuesday, 4 October 2005 12:09:50 GMT
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