Re: Conversion error of floating point numbers in pl/pgsql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Conversion error of floating point numbers in pl/pgsql
Date
Msg-id 32508.1447685394@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Conversion error of floating point numbers in pl/pgsql  (Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>)
Responses Re: Conversion error of floating point numbers in pl/pgsql  (Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>)
Re: Conversion error of floating point numbers in pl/pgsql  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes:
> Hello. I found that 9.5 has an undocumented difference from 9.4
> in type cast in pl/pgsql and I think it might better be mentioned
> as a change of behavior in release notes.

> Whether do you think it is worth mentioning or not in release notes?

This seems unnecessarily alarmist to me.  Anybody who's in the habit
of converting between float4 and float8 will already be used to this
behavior, because it is what has always happened everywhere else in
the system.
        regards, tom lane



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Michael Paquier
Date:
Subject: Re: Making tab-complete.c easier to maintain
Next
From: Kevin Grittner
Date:
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SQL function to report log message