Re: unsafe floats - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: unsafe floats
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Msg-id 87llm6lwly.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com
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In response to Re: unsafe floats  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> That sounds okay.  Also we might want to distinguish NaN from
> Infinity --- I would expect most people to want zero-divide to
> continue to get reported, for instance, even if they want to get
> Infinity for overflow.

Yeah, good point.

> This I disagree with.  It would mean, for example, that you could not
> dump and reload columns containing such data unless you remembered to
> switch the variable first.

Hmmm... on reflection, you're probably correct.

Since that removes the potential objection to the previous patch, I've
applied it to CVS.

-Neil



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