Re: Problem migrating dump to latest CVS snapshot. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: Problem migrating dump to latest CVS snapshot.
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Msg-id 3ABA9565.61D82BFD@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to Problem migrating dump to latest CVS snapshot.  (Gunnar R|nning <gunnar@candleweb.no>)
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> Seems Mandrake Linux is not the only platform where roundoff behavior is
> less IEEE-perfect than Thomas would like it to be.  Perhaps we need a
> slightly more robust approach to controlling roundoff error.

Go ahead. istm that asking modulo, trunc, etc to Do The Right Thing is
not a big deal, and it would be better to understand how to build
executables that can do math.

Certainly better than writing a bunch of extra checking code to work
around the inability of a compiler (or compiler options) to do IEEE
math. It *is* a standard, ya know ;)

                     - Thomas

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