From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Jon Buller <jonb(at)metronet(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] NetBSD/NS32K regression results |
Date: | 1998-10-30 21:43:58 |
Message-ID: | 19538.909783838@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jon Buller <jonb(at)metronet(dot)com> writes:
> After rebuilding and retesting from a CVS update last night, I can
> report that all tests passed with the following exceptions:
Great!
> float8 has some problems with very large and very small numbers.
> datetime and horology have some problems with 'current' and 'epoch'
> which might (or might not) be related to the float8 problems.
I think you guessed right. IIRC, datetime has an underlying
representation of float8, and some of the special values like
"current" are represented as particular very-large or very-small
numbers. So it might break if your machine's float math is not
up to IEEE-float specs. However, you can do an awful lot of stuff
with datetime without ever needing the special values, so this
might not be much of a problem for you.
regards, tom lane
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