Re: [HACKERS] NAN code

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Jan Wieck <jwieck(at)debis(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] NAN code
Date: 1999-01-04 18:17:50
Message-ID: 369105CE.B2993991@alumni.caltech.edu
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> While searching for the NAN definition I've noticed too that
> our float4/float8 datatypes can output 'NaN', but do not
> parse them back.

Yeah, I just noticed that a few minutes ago too.

I've got some patches which fix this, at least for machines with NaN
support (and for HUGE_VAL/Infinity too). We'll need some more code to
handle non-IEEE machines...

- Tom

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