Re: documentation update for doc/src/sgml/func.sgml

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
> wrote:
> >> I had a look at this patch. This patch adds some text below a table
> >> of functions. Immediately above that table, there is this existing
> >> language:
> >>
> >> The functions working with <type>double precision</type> data are
> mostly
> >> implemented on top of the host system's C library; accuracy and
> behavior
> >> in
> >> boundary cases can therefore vary depending on the host system.
> >>
> >> This seems to me to substantially duplicate the information added by the
> >> patch.
> >
> > I would rather say that it explicites the potential issues. Taking that
> into
> > account, maybe the part about floating point could be moved up after the
> > above sentence, or the above sentence moved down as an introduction, with
> > some pruning so that it fits in?
>
> Possibly. If anyone still cares about this patch, then they should
> try revising it along those lines and submit an updated version. If
> no one is excited enough about this to do that, we should just flag
> this as rejected and move on. Since this patch has been kicking
> around since August, my reading is nobody's very excited about it, but
> maybe I'm misinterpreting the situation.

Let's move on then, marked as rejected.
--
Michael