Re: division by zero

I think this caused by floating point signals being reported by the OS,
while integer operations don't have signals. I suppose we could catch
the divide by zero easily. Folks?

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Eric B.Ridge wrote:
> I admit, I suck at math, but I really thought postgres would ERROR on
> this:
>
> foo=# select 1/0;
> ?column?
> ----------
> 0
> (1 row)
>
> More surprising is that this does ERROR:
> foo=# select 1/0.0;
> ERROR: division by zero on numeric
>
> Is this a bug, or do I need to go back to high school algebra? "Both"
> is an acceptable answer. :)
>
> eric
>
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