Re: [HACKERS] Warning!!

Thus spake Tom Lane
> And hardware-dependent, evidently, because I get the right thing on HP:
>
> play=> select cash_mul_flt8('$1', '123.77');
> cash_mul_flt8
> -------------
> $123.77
> (1 row)

Works fine on NetBSD -current.

> ! *result = floor((*f) * (*c) + 0.5);

Is this correct? What about "select cash_mul_flt8('$1', '123.99')?"
Wouldn't that convert it to 124.00?

> The other cash functions also need to be looked at for rounding
> sloppiness, so I see no point in committing this fix by its lonesome.
>
> Lessee, who's the author of cash.c ... looks like it's D'Arcy ...
> D'Arcy, you wanna put this on your to-do list?

Well, I didn't do those portions but I can look at it at some point I
suppose. I'm just not sure that it is as simple as suggested above.

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