Re: Behavior change in PG8.3?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: khanzahid235(at)yahoo(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Behavior change in PG8.3?
Date: 2008-08-26 16:33:33
Message-ID: 4078.1219768413@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Zahid Khan <khanzahid235(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I see one behavior change is PG8.3 and PG 8.2 .I was getting error of underflow value in PG8.2 when i
> tried to insert '1E-307' in double precision column .And my
> application was expecting the same error condition with the same
> values against PG 8.3.3 as well.but now this vaule is inserted successfully.I was thinking is this expected ,or was broken in PG 8.2 ?

It's not particularly surprising; we now allow denormalized numbers if
the platform supports them.

regards, tom lane

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