Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:39 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> No, but that's not the hazard. I have a very fresh-in-mind example:
>> at one point while tweaking Laetitia's patch, I'd accidentally changed
>> datanh so that it called tanh not atanh. The previous set of tests did
>> not reveal that :-(
> Well, that was a goof, but it's not likely that such a regression will
> ever be reintroduced.
Sure, but how about this for another example: maybe a given platform
hasn't got these functions (or they're in a different library we
didn't pull in), but you don't see a failure until you actually
call them. We try to set up our link options so that that sort
of failure is reported at build time, but I wouldn't care to bet
that we've succeeded at that everywhere.
regards, tom lane