Re: [PATCH] random_normal function - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Paul Ramsey
Subject Re: [PATCH] random_normal function
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Msg-id CACowWR0vwKfZQx-accsOK1RXF1k1_L+FhCcJ8s7ssBsTURjawA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] random_normal function  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 6:34 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> writes:
> > I double-checked the one-in-a-billion claim, and it looks about right
> > for each test.
>
> Thanks for double-checking my arithmetic.
>
> > The rest looks good to me, except there's a random non-ASCII character
> > instead of a hyphen in "Kolmogorov-Smirnov" (because I copy-pasted the
> > name from some random website).
>
> Yeah, I caught that before committing.
>
> The AIX buildfarm members were still showing low-order diffs in the
> random_normal results at extra_float_digits = 0, but they seem OK
> after reducing it to -1.

I should leave the country more often... thanks for cleaning up my
patch and committing it Tom! It's a Christmas miracle (at least, for
me :)
P.



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