On 2026-Jan-15, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah ... my recollection is that some of our inclusions of <math.h>,
> and also of <limits.h>, were needed because assorted platforms didn't
> follow the C/POSIX standards about which headers should provide which
> symbols. Maybe that's all cleaned up now. I'd worry about Solaris
> and AIX as being the most likely stragglers.
I think we have enough Solaris in the buildfarm to know if there are any
problems. As for AIX, we don't support it currently, and I guess we'll
know from the developers if we need any patches there.
> Another likely source of obsolete <math.h> usages is in the datetime
> code, as a leftover from our old floating-point timestamps.
Yeah, there was one in date.h related to that, which I mentioned in my
reply to Andres.
I have just pushed it. Now it's time for the buildfarm to speak ...
Thanks liujinyang, and welcome -- may your Postgres contribution days be
long and fertile.
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