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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>
Cc: Michael S. Tibbetts <mtibbetts@head-cfa.cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: min() and NaN
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:44:10 -0400
Message-ID: <13316.1059072250@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Does postgres intend to support all the different types of NaN? Does you
> intend to have +Inf and -Inf and underflow detection and all the other goodies
> you actually need to make it useful?

We have some of that; it needs work, and it's always going to be
dependent on the platform having proper IEEE support, but that's no
excuse to throw it away.

			regards, tom lane



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