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From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere
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Msg-id 3977F6F4.B1F9C48B@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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> Yes.  But on machines that do have IEEE-compliant math, it would be
> nice to act more IEEE-ish than we do.  Perhaps a compile-time option
> for IEEE vs "traditional Postgres" behavior?

Sure. Sounds like a job for configure...
               - Thomas

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