| From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: unsafe floats |
| Date: | 2004-03-12 00:47:37 |
| Message-ID: | 87llm6lwly.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com |
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> That sounds okay. Also we might want to distinguish NaN from
> Infinity --- I would expect most people to want zero-divide to
> continue to get reported, for instance, even if they want to get
> Infinity for overflow.
Yeah, good point.
> This I disagree with. It would mean, for example, that you could not
> dump and reload columns containing such data unless you remembered to
> switch the variable first.
Hmmm... on reflection, you're probably correct.
Since that removes the potential objection to the previous patch, I've
applied it to CVS.
-Neil
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