Re: Cube extension point support // GSoC'13

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Stas Kelvich <stas(dot)kelvich(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> There is new version of patch. I have separated ordering operators to different patch (https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=1243), fixed formatting issues and implemented backward compatibility with old-style points in cube_is_point() and cube_out().
>
> Also comparing output files I've discovered that this four files is combination of two types of different behavior:
>
> 1) SELECT '-1e-700'::cube AS cube;
> can be (0) or (-0)
>
> 2) Amount of zeros in exponent of floating point, i.e. SELECT '1e27'::cube AS cube;
> can be (1e+027) or (1e+27)
>
> On my system (OSX) it is second option in both situations. I've also tested it on FreeBSD 9.0 and Ubuntu 12.04 with the same results. So is there some ideas how can I reproduce such results?

Heikki, are you going to review this further for this CommitFest?

Is there a prerequisite patch that hasn't been committed yet?

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