Re: float8 errors in HEAD...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: float8 errors in HEAD...
Date: 2003-05-07 14:11:21
Message-ID: 26841.1052316681@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
> I'm not sure if the regression tests haven't been updated or if
> there's a change, but I'm getting this on a recent FreeBSD machine
> with gcc 3.2.2. Any ideas? -sc

Apparently your machine now matches the "standard" float8.out.

Do you know how to tell the difference between what you have and
the freebsd releases that produce the small-is-zero results?

If we don't know how to distinguish them, the only fallback I can
see is to treat the small-is-zero case as a locale variant, which
would mean we'd accept it as legitimate behavior on any platform.
I'd rather not do that...

regards, tom lane

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