Re: Regression (semi)fix for netbsd-mac68k - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Regression (semi)fix for netbsd-mac68k
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Msg-id 23642.1103773951@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Regression (semi)fix for netbsd-mac68k  (Rémi Zara <remi_zara@mac.com>)
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Rémi Zara <remi_zara@mac.com> writes:
> Le 23 d=E9c. 04, =E0 00:26, Tom Lane a =E9crit :
>> Looks reasonable to me --- why do you call it only a "semi" fix

> Because strtod really should underflow, so there seems to be a bug in
> NetBSD's strtod.
> So this is just accepting the bug, not correcting it :)

Sure, but it's not our job to fix strtod().  Feel free to file a bug
report with the NetBSD guys.

>> I wonder whether we oughtn't remove the i.86- part from the patterns
>> for the BSDen, ie, assume they will have this behavior on all hardware
>> not just Intel.

> From pgbuildfarm, it seems that openBSD sparc64 does not exhibit the
> problem (it's not part of resultmap, and passes the float8 test).

OK, never mind that then.  Patch applied as-is.
        regards, tom lane


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