Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> writes:
> I think losing precision in the gist penalty is generally OK. Thus,
> it shouldn't be a problem to round a very small value as zero.
Check.
> Probably, we could even tolerate overflow in the gist penalty.
As long as overflow -> infinity, yeah I think so. Seems like it
was a mistake to insert the overflow-testing functions in this code
at all, and we should simplify it down to plain C addition/subtraction/
multiplication.
regards, tom lane
