Re: proposal: minscale, rtrim, btrim functions for numeric

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: proposal: minscale, rtrim, btrim functions for numeric
Date: 2020-01-06 18:08:23
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCsteYAbo_o3=xhhQ0RshH+8GHi-QLWqzJUwb=zBByOXQ@mail.gmail.com
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po 6. 1. 2020 v 18:22 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> napsal:

> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > út 10. 12. 2019 v 13:56 odesílatel Karl O. Pinc <kop(at)meme(dot)com> napsal:
> >> I'm marking it ready for a committer.
>
> > Thank you for review
>
> Pushed with minor adjustments. Notably, I didn't like having
> get_min_scale() depend on its callers having stripped trailing zeroes
> to avoid getting into a tight infinite loop. That's just trouble
> waiting to happen, especially since non-stripped numerics are seldom
> seen in practice (ones coming into the SQL-level functions should
> never look like that, ie the strip_var calls you had are almost
> certainly dead code). If we did have a code path where the situation
> could occur, and somebody forgot the strip_var call, the omission
> could easily escape notice. So I got rid of the strip_var calls and
> made get_min_scale() defend itself against the case. It's hardly
> any more code, and it should be a shade faster than strip_var anyway.
>

Thank you very much

Maybe this issue was part of ToDo list

Pavel

> regards, tom lane
>

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