Re: gamma() and lgamma() functions

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

To: Stepan Neretin <sncfmgg@gmail.com>

Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2024-07-01T15:04:16Z

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Add support for gamma() and lgamma() functions.
- a3b6dfd41069 18.0 landed

On 2024-Jul-01, Stepan Neretin wrote:

> I have one notice:
> ERROR:  value out of range: overflow. I think we need to add information
> about the available ranges in the error message

I think this is a project of its own.  The error comes from calling
float_overflow_error(), which is a generic routine used in several
functions which have different overflow conditions.  It's not clear to
me that throwing errors listing the specific range for each case is
worth the effort.

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