Re: GiST patches for 7.2 (please apply)

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> writes:
> > Teodor finally made patches to current CVS, please review and apply them asap
> > to be in sync with development (last time it was kind of problem)
>
> Checked and committed. Note I did not commit your change to the cube
> regression test:
>
> *** ./contrib/cube/expected/cube.out.orig Wed Aug 22 16:04:42 2001
> --- ./contrib/cube/expected/cube.out Wed Aug 22 16:26:25 2001
> ***************
> *** 130,142 ****
> SELECT '1e700'::cube AS cube;
> cube
> -------
> ! (inf)
> (1 row)
>
> SELECT '-1e700'::cube AS cube;
> cube
> --------
> ! (-inf)
> (1 row)
>
> SELECT '1e-700'::cube AS cube;
> --- 130,142 ----
> SELECT '1e700'::cube AS cube;
> cube
> -------
> ! (Inf)
> (1 row)
>
> SELECT '-1e700'::cube AS cube;
> cube
> --------
> ! (-Inf)
> (1 row)
>
> SELECT '1e-700'::cube AS cube;
>
> since on my machine "inf" appears to be the correct result. Is this a
> platform dependency, or just a lack of synchronization somewhere else?
>
> regards, tom lane

On my box FreeBSD4.3 it looks as 'Inf'. Very similar that this is
platform dependency.