Re: Re: [GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:30:21PM -0500, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I another thought: all the comparator code assumes (a<b || a>b || a==c)
> and therefor only test 2 of the three conditions, falling through to the 
> third. In the three places I just looked, two fall thorough to the equal case,
> and one to the 'less than' case. If all three fell through to the 'greater than'
> case, it might work with no tweaking at all. I'll have to try that, first.

Looking again, I realize that the sort comparetup_* code doesn't have
access to a operator to test for equality, so can't do this. Sigh. Time
to go home, I think.

Ross
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