Re: float8 regression failure (HEAD, cygwin)

On 01/08/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Maybe we need to abandon trying to map float8 results exactly in the
> > resultmap file, and just let pg_regress pick the best fit as we do with
> > some other tests.
>
> I thought about that too but it seems a very bad idea.  small-is-zero is
> distinctly "less correct" than the regular output, and I don't think we
> want pg_regress to be blindly accepting it as OK on any platform.
>
> Perhaps we could stick a version check into the resultmap lookup?  It'd
> likely have been painful on the shell script implementation but now that
> the code is in C I think we have lots of flexibility.  There's no need
> to feel bound by the historical resultmap format.
>
> However this is all premature unless we can verify that "cgywin's strtod()
> complains about float underflow after version so-and-so".  Do they
> publish a detailed change log?

There are links to the last few releases on their home page
http://www.cygwin.com  , in the News section.


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Adrian Maier