Re: horo(r)logy test fail on solaris (again and solved)

Andrew Dunstan napsal(a):
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> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
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>>> But the question is if the "-fast" flag is good for postgres. The
>>> -fast flag sets "brutal" floating point optimization and some
>>> operation should have less precision. Is possible verify that
>>> floating point operation works well?
>>>
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>> That's a pretty good way to guarantee that you'll break the datetime
>> code.
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> Doesn't this look odd regardless of what bad results come back from the
> FP library?

The problem was generated, because -fast option was set only for the
compiler and not for the linker. Linker takes wrong version of
libraries. If -fast is set for both then horology test is OK, but
question was if float optimalization should generate some problems.

regards, Zdenek