Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove the special cases to prevent minus-zero results in float4

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove the special cases to prevent minus-zero results in float4
Date: 2009-02-18 19:27:49
Message-ID: 499C6135.3050500@enterprisedb.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> We don't, however, expect that all platforms will produce minus zero, so
> we need to adjust the one affected regression test to allow both results.

Do we know if and what platforms wouldn't produce minus zero? It would
be interesting to not have the alternative expected output for a few
days and see which buildfarm animals break.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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