Re: float8 comparison failure
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Radek Kanovsky <rk@dat.cz>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@hub.org
Date: 2000-07-28T15:16:15Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Radek Kanovsky <rk@dat.cz> writes: > [ float8 values that appear equal are not always equal ] This is not a bug, it's an inherent consequence of the inaccuracy of floating-point math. Use some other data type (numeric, maybe) if you expect to be able to do exact equality comparisons. regards, tom lane