Re: BETA2 HOLD: was Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC's transcendental functions

2002-09-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Seems we need to resolve this before beta2. > > Not really. It's just a bug; we have others. Oh, it doesn't effect initdb? -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: BETA2 HOLD: was Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC's transcendental functions

2002-09-23 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seems we need to resolve this before beta2. Not really. It's just a bug; we have others. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? h

Re: BETA2 HOLD: was Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC's transcendental functions

2002-09-23 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Seems we need to resolve this before beta2. I'd go with making the NUMERIC default precision 16 for v7.3, so we are backwards compatible on this release (except that it is now a predictable 16 digit precision instead of an hardware implementation dependent one). For v7.

BETA2 HOLD: was Re: [HACKERS] NUMERIC's transcendental functions

2002-09-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Seems we need to resolve this before beta2. --- Tom Lane wrote: > Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One problem is, that division already has an inherently inexact > > result. Do you intend to rip that out too while