Re: WIP: rewrite numeric division - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: WIP: rewrite numeric division
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Msg-id 200709132356.l8DNuL308089@momjian.us
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In response to Re: WIP: rewrite numeric division  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paesold <mpaesold@gmx.at> writes:
> > Please, let's revisit this, and not postpone it without further
> > discussion. I never knew about the correctness issues in div_var(), but
> > since I know about it, I feel I am just waiting until that problem will
> > hit me or anyone else.
>
> Yeah.  I was basically waiting to see if anyone could come up with a
> faster solution.  Since no one seems to have an idea how to do it
> better, I'm inclined to apply the patch for 8.3.
>
>             regards, tom lane

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