Re: Using 128-bit integers for sum, avg and statistics aggregates - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Rowley
Subject Re: Using 128-bit integers for sum, avg and statistics aggregates
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In response to Re: Using 128-bit integers for sum, avg and statistics aggregates  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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On 22 March 2015 at 18:17, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Pushed with that additional change. Let's see if the buildfarm thinks.
>
> jacana, apparently alone among buildfarm members, does not like it.

All the windows nodes don't pass tests with this patch, the difference
is in the exponential precision: e+000 instead of e+00.

It looks like there's some other problems there too, but for the exponential issue, I posted a patch here:

 

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