Re: NaN support in NUMERIC data type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Sam Mason
Subject Re: NaN support in NUMERIC data type
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Msg-id 20090409125937.GP12225@frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk
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In response to Re: NaN support in NUMERIC data type  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:16:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sam Mason <sam@samason.me.uk> writes:
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:11:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Anyway, I revised this a bit and applied to HEAD.
> 
> > I've not tested; but your changes look as though they will break:
> >   SELECT 'Infinity'::float::numeric;
> 
> That gives an error now, just as it did before, so I'm not sure what you
> think is broken about it ...

I shouldn't have responded last night; didn't realise how little of my
code was left so the semantics I was assuming weren't valid.


--  Sam  http://samason.me.uk/


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