Re: Opossum vs. float4 NaN

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

Tom> The reason that it's reappeared is the refactoring we've done
Tom> recently around snprintf: float4out is now taking its float4
Tom> argument and widening it to double to pass to strtod, which is
Tom> where the checks for Inf/NaN happen.
[...]
Tom> to float4out, but ick. I was willing to do cb3e9e40b because it
Tom> didn't really make the code any uglier, but this would. And I bet
Tom> the issue is going to cause problems somewhere for Andrew's Ryu
Tom> patch, too.

Actually I'd expect the reverse - Ryu never widens a float4 to float8,
it does everything in integers after extracting the bits from the value;
so it should be immune to this issue.

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)