Rémi Zara <remi_zara@mac.com> writes:
> Le 23 d=E9c. 04, =E0 00:26, Tom Lane a =E9crit :
>> Looks reasonable to me --- why do you call it only a "semi" fix
> Because strtod really should underflow, so there seems to be a bug in
> NetBSD's strtod.
> So this is just accepting the bug, not correcting it :)
Sure, but it's not our job to fix strtod(). Feel free to file a bug
report with the NetBSD guys.
>> I wonder whether we oughtn't remove the i.86- part from the patterns
>> for the BSDen, ie, assume they will have this behavior on all hardware
>> not just Intel.
> From pgbuildfarm, it seems that openBSD sparc64 does not exhibit the
> problem (it's not part of resultmap, and passes the float8 test).
OK, never mind that then. Patch applied as-is.
regards, tom lane