Re: Floating point comparison inconsistencies of the geometric types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: Floating point comparison inconsistencies of the geometric types
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Msg-id CACjxUsPaS5kDEwrmLpW+PujQ9kUL+Z0whwPBFQdZRmhag9pmaQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Floating point comparison inconsistencies of the geometric types  (Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com> wrote:

> These patches apply and build on top of 5c609a74 with no problems,
> but `make check` finds differences per the attached.  Please
> investigate why the regression tests are failing and what the
> appropriate response is.

>> I am not much experienced in C.  If you think that inline functions
>> are better suited, I can rework the patches.
>
> I suspect that they will be as fast or faster, and they eliminate
> the hazard of multiple evaluation, where a programmer might not be
> aware of the multiple evaluation or of some side-effect of an
> argument.

Emre, are you going to address the above?  It would have to be Real
Soon Now.

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Kevin Grittner
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