Re: min() and NaN - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: min() and NaN
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Msg-id 13316.1059072250@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: min() and NaN  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
List pgsql-sql
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Does postgres intend to support all the different types of NaN? Does you
> intend to have +Inf and -Inf and underflow detection and all the other goodies
> you actually need to make it useful?

We have some of that; it needs work, and it's always going to be
dependent on the platform having proper IEEE support, but that's no
excuse to throw it away.
        regards, tom lane


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