From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Put back ERANGE test in dpow(). |
Date: | 2007-01-06 04:07:37 |
Message-ID: | 26099.1168056457@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Actually, when you return ERANGE, what is 'result'? Nan? Inf? finite?
I believe it's HUGE_VAL (the largest finite value) ... which is
something I don't want to explicitly test for, any more than I liked
the explicit use of min/max values before. Your isinf test is OK
because the point is that we want to replace any non-Inf result with Inf
if the result overflowed.
regards, tom lane
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