Re: Bug fix for glibc broke freebsd build in REL_11_STABLE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bug fix for glibc broke freebsd build in REL_11_STABLE
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Msg-id 29537.1536167196@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bug fix for glibc broke freebsd build in REL_11_STABLE  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-09-05 18:55:34 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Another option perhaps is to let this be and accept it as alternative
>> floating point behavior.  We already have some of those.

> -many.  We'd directly violate our own error rules.

I think that just from a regression-test-maintenance standpoint, this
approach would be a mess.  We could expect for instance that such
problems would come and go in weird places in the geometric tests.

            regards, tom lane


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