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Re: Re: Call for platforms

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, <thomas@pgsql.com>, <hxpro@cinesite.co.uk>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, <segfault@hardline.org>, <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>, <tih@kpnQwest.no>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, <mha@sollentuna.net>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-22T16:30:46Z
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The Hermit Hacker writes:

> How much 'diviation' are we allowing for?
>
> Solaris x86/7 results, for example, in geometry.out, show a difference of:
>
> 1.53102359078377e-11,3 (expected)
> 1.53102359017709e-11,3 (results)
>
> or
>
> 3,-3.06204718156754e-11 (expected)
> 3,-3.06204718035418e-11 (results)
>
> acceptable diviation?

Practically yes, technically not.  Check if the geometry results match any
of the other "expected" files so we can update the "resultmap".  See

http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/regress-platform.html

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