From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Have numeric 0 ^ 4.3 return 1, rather than an error, and have 0 ^ |
Date: | 2008-05-08 22:34:20 |
Message-ID: | 200805082234.m48MYK328302@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian(at)postgresql(dot)org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > Have numeric 0 ^ 4.3 return 1, rather than an error, and have 0 ^ 0.0
> > return 1, rather than error.
>
> This is wrongly described, and the implementation is still not correct
> either, because it should throw an error for negative exponents.
> Would you please *read* that wikipedia page you keep citing?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Powers_of_zero
I think this is fixed in the version I just committed:
test=> select 0 ^ (-1);
ERROR: invalid argument for power function
test=> select 0 ^ (-1.0);
ERROR: invalid argument for power function
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