Re: mingw32 floating point diff

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: mingw32 floating point diff
Date: 2019-08-24 15:18:37
Message-ID: 31166.1566659917@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com> writes:
> I couldn't test if it helps, but another solution may be is to rip out
> pg_hypot() in favour of the libc implementation. This was discussed
> in detail as part of "Improve geometric types" thread.

Hm ... the problem we're trying to fix here is platform-varying results.
Surely switching to the libc implementation would make that worse not
better?

regards, tom lane

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