Re: division by zero

"Eric B.Ridge" <ebr@tcdi.com> writes:
> I admit, I suck at math, but I really thought postgres would ERROR on
> this:

> foo=# select 1/0;

There's something wrong with your platform, I think.  I get an error on
both HPUX and Red Hat Linux.  What platform is this?  and what PG
version?

z=# select 1/0;
ERROR:  floating point exception! The last floating point operation either exceeded legal ranges or was a divide by
zero
z=#

            regards, tom lane