Re: How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere
Date: 2000-07-21 06:57:21
Message-ID: 12130.964162641@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> I'd think that, on some platforms, we can try coding things a bit
> differently. But the code in there now does do some useful things for
> some of the platforms we run on (though there are still holes in
> possible failure modes).

Yes. But on machines that do have IEEE-compliant math, it would be
nice to act more IEEE-ish than we do. Perhaps a compile-time option
for IEEE vs "traditional Postgres" behavior?

regards, tom lane

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