Re: [HACKERS] NAN code

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

To: Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, hackers@postgreSQL.org

Date: 1999-01-04T18:17:50Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

>     While  searching for the NAN definition I've noticed too that
>     our float4/float8 datatypes can  output  'NaN',  but  do  not
>     parse  them back.

Yeah, I just noticed that a few minutes ago too.

I've got some patches which fix this, at least for machines with NaN
support (and for HUGE_VAL/Infinity too). We'll need some more code to
handle non-IEEE machines...

                    - Tom