Re: Behavior change in PG8.3? - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Behavior change in PG8.3?
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Msg-id 4078.1219768413@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Behavior change in PG8.3?  (Zahid Khan <khanzahid235@yahoo.com>)
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Zahid Khan <khanzahid235@yahoo.com> writes:
> I see one behavior change is PG8.3 and PG 8.2 .I was getting error  of underflow value in PG8.2  when i
> tried to insert '1E-307' in double precision column .And my
> application was expecting the same error condition with the same
> values  against PG 8.3.3 as well.but now this vaule is inserted successfully.I was thinking is this expected ,or was
brokenin PG 8.2 ? 

It's not particularly surprising; we now allow denormalized numbers if
the platform supports them.

            regards, tom lane

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