Re: GiST patches for 7.2 (please apply)

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> > Teodor finally made patches to current CVS, please review and apply them asap
> > to be in sync with development (last time it was kind of problem)
> 
> Checked and committed.  Note I did not commit your change to the cube
> regression test:
> 
> *** ./contrib/cube/expected/cube.out.orig       Wed Aug 22 16:04:42 2001
> --- ./contrib/cube/expected/cube.out    Wed Aug 22 16:26:25 2001
> ***************
> *** 130,142 ****
>   SELECT '1e700'::cube AS cube;
>    cube
>   -------
> !  (inf)
>   (1 row)
> 
>   SELECT '-1e700'::cube AS cube;
>     cube
>   --------
> !  (-inf)
>   (1 row)
> 
>   SELECT '1e-700'::cube AS cube;
> --- 130,142 ----
>   SELECT '1e700'::cube AS cube;
>    cube
>   -------
> !  (Inf)
>   (1 row)
> 
>   SELECT '-1e700'::cube AS cube;
>     cube
>   --------
> !  (-Inf)
>   (1 row)
> 
>   SELECT '1e-700'::cube AS cube;
> 
> since on my machine "inf" appears to be the correct result.  Is this a
> platform dependency, or just a lack of synchronization somewhere else?
> 
>                         regards, tom lane

On my box FreeBSD4.3 it looks as 'Inf'. Very similar that this is
platform dependency.