Re: Crash in gist insertion on pathological box data - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Crash in gist insertion on pathological box data
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Msg-id 13749.1238697216@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Crash in gist insertion on pathological box data  (Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>)
Responses Re: Crash in gist insertion on pathological box data  (Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>)
Re: Crash in gist insertion on pathological box data  (Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>)
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Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> writes:
> Look at the patch, it fixes the problem by comparing for equality by FPeq() 
> macros which is used everywhere in geometry calculation.

Ick.  FPeq() is a crock; I'd like to see us get rid of it, not spread it
even further.  And what confidence do you have that this change
eliminates all forms of the problem, anyway?
        regards, tom lane


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