>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> But PostgreSQL effectively requires IEEE 754 since commit >> 02ddd499322ab6f2f0d58692955dc9633c2150fc, right? Tom> That commit presumes that floats follow the IEEE bitwise Tom> representation, I think; Correct. (It notably does _not_ make any assumptions about how floating point arithmetic or comparisons work - all the computation is done in integers.) Tom> but it's a long way from there to assuming that float comparisons Tom> do something that is explicitly *not* promised by C99. I agree. -- Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
