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

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> I'd think that, on some platforms, we can try coding things a bit
> differently. But the code in there now does do some useful things for
> some of the platforms we run on (though there are still holes in
> possible failure modes).

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?
        regards, tom lane