Re: failed test float8 on mingw

Do earlier versions work if built on this machine? Like 8.3-latest? My
guess is that it's something in mingw or the environment rather than
pg, but let's confirm that before trying to track down what..

/Magnus

On 11 nov 2008, at 06.56, "Jaime Casanova"
<jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Trying to review some patches on windows... mingw: 5.1.4; msys:
> 1.0.10; gcc 3.4.5
> This is not current head but this morning snapshot tarball... but i
> saw this same error with yesterday tarball...
>
> I get this failure on regression tests:
>
> expected output:
>
> SELECT '10e-400'::float8;
> ! ERROR: "10e-400" is out of range for type double precision
> ! LINE 1: SELECT '10e-400'::float8;
> ! ^
> SELECT '-10e-400'::float8;
> ! ERROR: "-10e-400" is out of range for type double precision
> ! LINE 1: SELECT '-10e-400'::float8;
> !
>
> actual result output:
>
> SELECT '10e-400'::float8;
> ! float8
> ! --------
> ! 0
> ! (1 row)
> !
> SELECT '-10e-400'::float8;
> ! float8
> ! --------
> ! 0
> ! (1 row)
>
>
> --
> Atentamente,
> Jaime Casanova
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