Re: Repost: FastFPE results for Linux/ARM - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee> writes:
> On Linux/ARM PostgreSQL may encounter 2 types of floating point emulation:
>   1) standard precision: Linux/NWFPE, GCC soft-float
>   2) reduced precision: Linux/FastFPE

I don't really see why we should consider the latter as a "pass".
The regression tests exist in part to inform you when you are using
a substandard platform.  Lately it seems that people have adopted the
goal that all the tests should "pass" no matter what.  I fundamentally
disagree with that.

            regards, tom lane