Pedro Gimeno <pgsql-004@personal.formauri.es> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote, On 2015-03-25 18:57:
>> Hmm ... I'm thinking we probably should explicitly check for inf and NaN,
>> no?
> I agree about NaN; it worked but mostly by accident. The big number
> detection catches infinity unambiguously. Added to a comment in the
> attached (plus corresponding tests).
I fooled around with this some more for clarity and committed it.
Thanks for your work!
BTW, if memory serves we also have a pretty lazy rounding implementation
for the numeric datatype. I wonder if now would be a good time to upgrade
that to be round-to-nearest-even as well.
regards, tom lane