| From: | "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's |
| Date: | 2000-08-21 22:59:02 |
| Message-ID: | 20000821175902.E17981@rice.edu |
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:30:21PM -0500, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
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> Hmm, I another thought: all the comparator code assumes (a<b || a>b || a==c)
> and therefor only test 2 of the three conditions, falling through to the
> third. In the three places I just looked, two fall thorough to the equal case,
> and one to the 'less than' case. If all three fell through to the 'greater than'
> case, it might work with no tweaking at all. I'll have to try that, first.
Looking again, I realize that the sort comparetup_* code doesn't have
access to a operator to test for equality, so can't do this. Sigh. Time
to go home, I think.
Ross
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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005
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