Re: [HACKERS] Warning!! - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Warning!!
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Msg-id 199812122003.PAA03161@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Warning!!  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Should I add this to the TODO list?
> >> 
> >> What's needed is explicit rounding.  Instead of letting the compiler do
> >> the rounding during its implicit float-to-int conversion (which
> >> generally truncates towards 0 or towards -infinity), do
> >> [snip]
> >> The other cash functions also need to be looked at for rounding
> >> sloppiness, so I see no point in committing this fix by its lonesome.
> 
> Yes, that still needs to be dealt with. I suggest
> 
>     * Fix roundoff problems in "cash" datatype.
> 

Added.

> Actually, the whole cash datatype ought to be obsoleted by real
> fixed-point-numeric support, but that's a *much* bigger project...


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