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Re: How PostgreSQL's floating-point hurts everyone everywhere

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-21T07:08:36Z
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> Yes.  But on machines that do have IEEE-compliant math, it would be
> nice to act more IEEE-ish than we do.  Perhaps a compile-time option
> for IEEE vs "traditional Postgres" behavior?

Sure. Sounds like a job for configure...

                - Thomas