Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's

2001-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
[ continuing a discussion from last August ] Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Momjian writes: My assumption is that we never came up with any solution to this, right? It stopped when we noticed that proper support for non-finite values will break indexing, because the

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's

2001-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was thinking about making NaN equivalent to NULL. Mumble ... in the thread last August, someone made the point that SQL's idea of NULL (unknown value) is not really the same as a NaN (I know that this is not a well-defined number). Even though

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] +/- Inf for float8's

2000-10-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
My assumption is that we never came up with any solution to this, right? On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:33:00AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: snip side comment about bug tracking. My input: for an email controllable system, take a look at the debian bug tracking system Show me a system