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Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 6.5.2

Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> — 1999-10-01T22:55:00Z

>From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>
>Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> I'm sure we could get rid of even those errors if we were to
>> incorporate some test like the following and then mangle the
>> expected results accordingly.
>
>I don't see much value in getting rid of the discrepancies in strerror()
>messages unless you have some proposal for getting rid of platform-
>specific float roundoff differences.  On my machine, the diffs in the
>float8 and geometry regress tests are *much* larger and much harder to
>validate by eyeball than the piddling little diffs in int2 and int4.
>(I suppose I should submit platform-specific expected files for HPUX,
>but have never gotten round to it...)
>
>However, if people like this approach, why not just print out
>"strerror(ERANGE)" instead of fooling with strtol?

Trust me to make things over complex!!

Keith.