| From: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: numeric input changes |
| Date: | 2004-03-10 22:05:17 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0403102302190.13979-100000@zigo.dhs.org |
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> > nconway=# select 'Infinity'::float8;
> > ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow
>
> This works in 7.4 and older releases. Sounds to me like you broke it.
It does not work on 7.3 and 7.4 when I try.
Looking at the currect cvs code it's not just parsing 'Infinity' as a
value, there is also an overflow check after float operations that will
exclude Infinity and Nan.
By the way, this thing was discussed on irc and I just sent a mail on
-hackers about it, not knowing about this thread here.
There are too many lists :-)
--
/Dennis Björklund
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