Re: [GENERAL] division by zero - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: [GENERAL] division by zero
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Msg-id 20030310142035.S32669-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] division by zero  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] division by zero  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
> > The only other solution is a #ifdef win32 around places that potentially
> > use integers in the divisor and do some nasty hacking.
>
> Well, it seems to me that we have two different issues to worry about:
>
> 1.  There are only about half a dozen places for a user-triggered
> division by zero to occur (the div and mod functions for int2, int4,
> int8; have I missed anything?).  It would not be very painful to insert

It's unlikely to come up in practice, but chardiv as well for "char".




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