From: | "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Roman Kononov <kononov195-pgsql(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #2846: inconsistent and |
Date: | 2006-12-29 15:52:24 |
Message-ID: | 459539B8.5080904@phlo.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>> OK, are you saying that there is a signal we are ignoring for
>> overflow/underflow, or that we should just silently overflow/underflow
>> and not throw an error?
>
> Silent underflow is fine with me; it's the norm in most all float
> implementations and won't surprise anyone. For overflow I'm OK with
> either returning infinity or throwing an error --- but if an error,
> it should only be about inf-out-with-non-inf-in, not comparisons to any
> artificial MAX/MIN values.
>
> Anyone else have an opinion about this?
If an underflow is not reported (And thus silently treated as zero), then
it'd make sense for me to deal with overflows in a similar way, and just
return infinity.
The most correct solution would IMHO be to provide a guc variable
"strict_float_semantics" that defaults to "off", meaning that neather
overflow nor underflow reports an error. If the variable was set to on,
_both_ overflow and underflow would be reported.
Just my €0.02
greetings, Florian Pflug
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