pgsql: Try to fix portability issue in enum renumbering (again).

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Try to fix portability issue in enum renumbering (again).
Date: 2016-08-31 17:58:06
Message-ID: E1bf9m2-0000f5-Tc@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Try to fix portability issue in enum renumbering (again).

The hack embodied in commit 4ba61a487 no longer works after today's change
to allow DatumGetFloat4/Float4GetDatum to be inlined (commit 14cca1bf8).
Probably what's happening is that the faulty compilers are deciding that
the now-inlined assignment is a no-op and so they're not required to
round to float4 width.

We had a bunch of similar issues earlier this year in the degree-based
trig functions, and eventually settled on using volatile intermediate
variables as the least ugly method of forcing recalcitrant compilers
to do what the C standard says (cf commit 82311bcdd). Let's see if
that method works here.

Discussion: <4640(dot)1472664476(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/65a588b4c3b06aefe0b00d6222598d4cff3542c2

Modified Files
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src/backend/catalog/pg_enum.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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