On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> The next time somebody proposes that we can get exact results out of
>>> floating-point arithmetic, I'm going to run away screaming.
>
>> And you wonder why I avoid floating point variables like the plague...!
>
> Float variables are fine for their intended use-case. The problem is
> with trying to guarantee identical results across all platforms.
Yeah, yeah... :-)
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