From: | "Adrian Maier" <adrian(dot)maier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] float8 regression failure (HEAD, cygwin) |
Date: | 2006-08-01 12:45:08 |
Message-ID: | cd30ef8c0608010545m5d5dab85i32331ef691f1d55b@mail.gmail.com |
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On 01/08/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Maybe we need to abandon trying to map float8 results exactly in the
> > resultmap file, and just let pg_regress pick the best fit as we do with
> > some other tests.
>
> I thought about that too but it seems a very bad idea. small-is-zero is
> distinctly "less correct" than the regular output, and I don't think we
> want pg_regress to be blindly accepting it as OK on any platform.
>
> Perhaps we could stick a version check into the resultmap lookup? It'd
> likely have been painful on the shell script implementation but now that
> the code is in C I think we have lots of flexibility. There's no need
> to feel bound by the historical resultmap format.
>
> However this is all premature unless we can verify that "cgywin's strtod()
> complains about float underflow after version so-and-so". Do they
> publish a detailed change log?
There are links to the last few releases on their home page
http://www.cygwin.com , in the News section.
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Adrian Maier
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