Re: Proposal: Trigonometric functions in degrees - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proposal: Trigonometric functions in degrees
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Msg-id 7765.1453586696@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Proposal: Trigonometric functions in degrees  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
Responses Re: Proposal: Trigonometric functions in degrees  (Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>)
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Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> To reliably produce exact answers, this code must delay all trigonometric
> calculations to runtime.  On sungazer, the float8 test happens to pass if I
> rebuild float.c with -fno-builtin-sin; that leaves calls like acos(0.5) and
> cos(60.0 * RADIANS_PER_DEGREE) unprotected, though.

Either I missed something or there's another issue, because tern/sungazer
are *still* failing.  This is getting annoying :-(
        regards, tom lane



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