Re: WIP: rewrite numeric division

This has been saved for the 8.4 release:

http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at> writes:
> > Please, let's revisit this, and not postpone it without further
> > discussion. I never knew about the correctness issues in div_var(), but
> > since I know about it, I feel I am just waiting until that problem will
> > hit me or anyone else.
>
> Yeah. I was basically waiting to see if anyone could come up with a
> faster solution. Since no one seems to have an idea how to do it
> better, I'm inclined to apply the patch for 8.3.
>
> regards, tom lane

--
Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

+ If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +