From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:34:43 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200307220134.h6M1Yhr09877@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5212.1058802199@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Is this a TODO?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca> writes:
> > If a compare with NaN is always false, how about rewriting it as:
> > result = ((arg1 < arg2) ? arg2 : arg1).
>
> That just changes the failure mode.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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