Today's WTF

[Tim Sweetman]

Toby Corkindale wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:32:08PM +1100, Toby Corkindale wrote:
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>>2) if the DB updates fast enough, $rowsReturned may jump more than one row per
>>iteration, and once $rowsReturned is > $rowsToCollect, the LOOP NEVER ENDS. In
>>which case it won't just be the DBA after your head.
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>Whoops. It has a LIMIT clause on the SQL, so actually it will eventually
>terminate.
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>But I still think it's crack-fuelled.
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It would still be considered desirable to use >=, rather than ==, to 
avoid the possibility of an endless busy loop if the code is changed, 
but, aside from that, where is the crack here?

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Database_as_an_IPC

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