RE: Postgres 11 release notes

From: Huong Dangminh <huo-dangminh(at)ys(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>
To: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Akio Iwaasa <aki-iwaasa(at)vt(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>
Subject: RE: Postgres 11 release notes
Date: 2018-05-15 06:40:18
Message-ID: 75DB81BEEA95B445AE6D576A0A5C9E936A76BE3F@BPXM05GP.gisp.nec.co.jp
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Hi,

> From: David Rowley [mailto:david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 3:01 PM
> To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
> Cc: Đặng Minh Hướng <kakalot49(at)gmail(dot)com>; PostgreSQL-development
> <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: Postgres 11 release notes
>
> On 15 May 2018 at 08:28, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Consistently return <literal>NaN</literal> for
> > <literal>NaN</literal> inputs to <function>power()</literal>
> > on older platforms (Dang Minh Huong)
>
> While I'm not in favour of removing Dang's credit here, technically this
> patch was Tom's. The code added in float.c by Dang's patch
> (61b200e2f) was effectively reverted by 6bdf1303. Dang's regression tests
> remain, so should also be credited along with Tom.

Thanks David, I agreed.
Also 6bdf1303 should be included like below,

<!--
Branch: master [6bdf1303b] Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN
+Branch: master [61b200e2f] Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN
-->

<para>
Consistently return <literal>NaN</literal> for
<literal>NaN</literal> inputs to <function>power()</function>
- on older platforms (Dang Minh Huong)
+ on older platforms (Tom Lane, Dang Minh Huong)
</para>

Thanks and best regards,
---
Dang Minh Huong
NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.
http://www.nec-solutioninnovators.co.jp/en/

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