On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr> > wrote: > >> I had a look at this patch. This patch adds some text below a table > >> of functions. Immediately above that table, there is this existing > >> language: > >> > >> The functions working with <type>double precision</type> data are > mostly > >> implemented on top of the host system's C library; accuracy and > behavior > >> in > >> boundary cases can therefore vary depending on the host system. > >> > >> This seems to me to substantially duplicate the information added by the > >> patch. > > > > I would rather say that it explicites the potential issues. Taking that > into > > account, maybe the part about floating point could be moved up after the > > above sentence, or the above sentence moved down as an introduction, with > > some pruning so that it fits in? > > Possibly. If anyone still cares about this patch, then they should > try revising it along those lines and submit an updated version. If > no one is excited enough about this to do that, we should just flag > this as rejected and move on. Since this patch has been kicking > around since August, my reading is nobody's very excited about it, but > maybe I'm misinterpreting the situation. Let's move on then, marked as rejected. -- Michael
