Re: [PATCH] Fix float8 parsing of denormal values (on some platforms?)
Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
To: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl>
Date: 2012-01-26T15:57:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
At 2011-12-21 18:24:17 +0200, marti@juffo.org wrote: > > > I think the least invasive fix, as proposed by Jeroen, is to fail only > > when ERANGE is set *and* the return value is 0.0 or +/-HUGE_VAL. > > Reading relevant specifications, this seems to be a fairly safe > > assumption. That's what the attached patch does. > > Oops, now attached the patch too. Approach seems sensible, patch applies, builds, and passes tests. Marking ready for committer and crossing fingers about buildfarm failures… -- ams