Re: horo(r)logy test fail on solaris (again and solved)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
>   
>> But the question is if the "-fast" flag is good for postgres. The -fast 
>> flag sets "brutal" floating point optimization and some operation should 
>> have less precision. Is possible verify that floating point operation 
>> works well?
>>     
>
> That's a pretty good way to guarantee that you'll break the datetime
> code.
>
>   

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Doesn't this look odd regardless of what bad results come back from the 
FP library?

cheers

andrew