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That's not at all what this does and it's not possible to do either.

That's what you can do with Coq. I can implement a reference interpreter and an optimized compiler and prove that the behavior of all possible programs are equivalent in both environments.

This is, what I assume, the long-term target of the article.

You'd need to prove that a DBMS executes a query always correctly to begin with. That in itself would be quite the task.

Additionally SQL as supported by some DBMSes (e.g. Postgres due to recursive CTE and window functions) is turing complete. That makes proving equivalency in general a bit challenging.

It'll be possible if both databases are written using proof assistants like Coq. And I think this work is a step towards that direction.

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