Re: [PATCH] Improve geometric types

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
To: emre@hasegeli.com
Cc: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-08-17T18:48:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 08/17/2018 08:24 PM, Emre Hasegeli wrote:
>> BTW how did we end up with the regression differences? Presumably you've
>> tried that on your machine and it passed. So if we adjust the expected
>> file, won't it fail on some other machines?
> 
> I had another patch to check for -0 inside float{4,8}_{div,mul}().  I
> dropped it on the last set of patches, so the tests were broken.  I
> get -0 as a result of -x * 0 both on Mac and Linux.
> 

OK, that explains is. I won't have time to get this committed before CF
2018-09, but I'll pick it up in September.

regards

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Commits

  1. Improve test coverage of geometric types

  2. Fix problems in handling the line data type

  3. Use the built-in float datatypes to implement geometric types

  4. Remove remaining GEODEBUG references from geo_ops.c

  5. Provide separate header file for built-in float types

  6. Refactor geometric functions and operators

  7. Fix crash in close_ps() for NaN input coordinates.

  8. Fix GiST index build for NaN values in geometric types.

  9. Enable building with Visual Studion 2013.

  10. Suppress -0 in the C field of lines computed by line_construct_pts().