Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release Candidate 4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release Candidate 4
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Msg-id 200501091745.40017.peter_e@gmx.net
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Chris Mair wrote:
> The Playstation 2 hardware manuals confirm that the FPU has
> no support for NaN and +/-Inf. That explains the regression diffs.
> (EE Core User's Manual Version 5, p. 153)

Well, it does not readily explain that 'infinity' is rejected as invalid 
input syntax.  You should get an overflow or some large value, at 
least.

The relevant code is in src/backend/utils/adt/float.c.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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