Re: How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere
Date: 2000-07-21 07:08:36
Message-ID: 3977F6F4.B1F9C48B@alumni.caltech.edu
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> 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?

Sure. Sounds like a job for configure...

- Thomas

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