This is not a regression test failure, but looks like one... Version: PostgreSQL 7.4.6 on ia64-hp-hpux11.23, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.4.2
$ file postgres postgres: ELF-64 executable object file - IA64 $ cat regression.diffs *** ./expected/float8.out Thu Sep 25 02:58:06 2003 --- ./results/float8.out Wed Feb 16 23:59:29 2005 *************** *** 249,255 **** SELECT '' AS bad, f.f1 * '1e200' from FLOAT8_TBL f; ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow SELECT '' AS bad, f.f1 ^ '1e200' from FLOAT8_TBL f; ! ERROR: result is out of range SELECT '' AS bad, ln(f.f1) from FLOAT8_TBL f where f.f1 = '0.0' ; ERROR: cannot take logarithm of zero SELECT '' AS bad, ln(f.f1) from FLOAT8_TBL f where f.f1 < '0.0' ; --- 249,255 ---- SELECT '' AS bad, f.f1 * '1e200' from FLOAT8_TBL f; ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow SELECT '' AS bad, f.f1 ^ '1e200' from FLOAT8_TBL f; ! ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow SELECT '' AS bad, ln(f.f1) from FLOAT8_TBL f where f.f1 = '0.0' ; ERROR: cannot take logarithm of zero SELECT '' AS bad, ln(f.f1) from FLOAT8_TBL f where f.f1 < '0.0' ; ====================================================================== ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
