Re: How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere
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Msg-id 12130.964162641@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> I'd think that, on some platforms, we can try coding things a bit
> differently. But the code in there now does do some useful things for
> some of the platforms we run on (though there are still holes in
> possible failure modes).

Yes.  But on machines that do have IEEE-compliant math, it would be
nice to act more IEEE-ish than we do.  Perhaps a compile-time option
for IEEE vs "traditional Postgres" behavior?
        regards, tom lane


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