pgsql: Avoid use of float arithmetic in bipartite_match.c. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Avoid use of float arithmetic in bipartite_match.c.
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Msg-id E1ZTYfD-0005Az-4H@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Avoid use of float arithmetic in bipartite_match.c.

Since the distances used in this algorithm are small integers (not more
than the size of the U set, in fact), there is no good reason to use float
arithmetic for them.  Use short ints instead: they're smaller, faster, and
require no special portability assumptions.

Per testing by Greg Stark, which disclosed that the code got into an
infinite loop on VAX for lack of IEEE-style float infinities.  We don't
really care all that much whether Postgres can run on a VAX anymore,
but there seems sufficient reason to change this code anyway.

In passing, make a few other small adjustments to make the code match
usual Postgres coding style a bit better.

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/44ed65a545970829322098e22d10947e6d545d9a

Modified Files
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src/backend/lib/bipartite_match.c |   75 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
src/include/lib/bipartite_match.h |   16 ++++----
2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)


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