Re: Bug fix for glibc broke freebsd build in REL_11_STABLE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Victor Wagner <vitus(at)wagner(dot)pp(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bug fix for glibc broke freebsd build in REL_11_STABLE
Date: 2018-09-05 17:06:36
Message-ID: 29537.1536167196@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2018-09-05 18:55:34 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Another option perhaps is to let this be and accept it as alternative
>> floating point behavior. We already have some of those.

> -many. We'd directly violate our own error rules.

I think that just from a regression-test-maintenance standpoint, this
approach would be a mess. We could expect for instance that such
problems would come and go in weird places in the geometric tests.

regards, tom lane

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