Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> I'd think that, on some platforms, we can try coding things a bit
> differently. But the code in there now does do some useful things for
> some of the platforms we run on (though there are still holes in
> possible failure modes).
Yes. But on machines that do have IEEE-compliant math, it would be
nice to act more IEEE-ish than we do. Perhaps a compile-time option
for IEEE vs "traditional Postgres" behavior?
regards, tom lane