Re: [HACKERS] Warning!!

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: james(at)vrtx(dot)net (A James Lewis)
Cc: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, darcy(at)druid(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Warning!!
Date: 1998-11-04 13:57:57
Message-ID: 199811041357.IAA09511@candle.pha.pa.us
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>
> I'm very new to this list, and I have to first say that 6.4beta5 fixes
> every problem I had encountered with 6.3.2 (A small list..) A bug I didn't
> encounter isn't a bug for me...
>
> BUT...
>
> Just now I saw and posted this...
>
> testdb=> select cash_mul_flt8('$1', '123.74');
> cash_mul_flt8
> -------------
> $123.73
> (1 row)
>
> If the pence is 0-4 it rounds down... surely that's a rounding bug because
> it should be looking at the next significant figure?
>
> It's really small, and insignificant but I guess I should tell somone...
>

Works here on BSD/OS 4.0. Looks like an OS bug, perhaps.

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