| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Inaccurate results from numeric ln(), log(), exp() and pow() |
| Date: | 2015-12-10 19:32:31 |
| Message-ID: | CA+Tgmoa3AgrvAiVT8ONz7UX8fz2PgXS4U8aRNEMrfo1JHOgDFw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 10 December 2015 at 18:59, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Why did we make the change? I'm not sure it's bad, but
>>
>> it seems funny to whack a user-visible behavior around like this
>> without a clearly-explained reason.
>
> Surely the title of the post explains?
Nope. I'm not asking why we fixed the inaccurate results. I'm asking
why we now produce fewer output digits than before.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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