Re: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt float.c

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt float.c
Date: 2001-06-02 20:42:02
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0106022239210.23690-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> Accept and output '-Infinity' as well as 'Infinity', per long-ago
> suggestion from Ross Reedstrom. Still needs work to make those symbols
> convert to actual IEEE infinities (on machines where such things exist).

#ifdef INFINITY
val = INFINITY;
#else
elog?
#endif

Those who don't have INFINITY can define it in their port.h, like NAN.
1.0/0.0 should suffice.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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