| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] division by zero |
| Date: | 2003-03-10 22:32:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20030310142035.S32669-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com |
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> writes:
> > The only other solution is a #ifdef win32 around places that potentially
> > use integers in the divisor and do some nasty hacking.
>
> Well, it seems to me that we have two different issues to worry about:
>
> 1. There are only about half a dozen places for a user-triggered
> division by zero to occur (the div and mod functions for int2, int4,
> int8; have I missed anything?). It would not be very painful to insert
It's unlikely to come up in practice, but chardiv as well for "char".
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