Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] BUG #2846: inconsistent and

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> OK, are you saying that there is a signal we are ignoring for
> overflow/underflow, or that we should just silently overflow/underflow
> and not throw an error?

Silent underflow is fine with me; it's the norm in most all float
implementations and won't surprise anyone.  For overflow I'm OK with
either returning infinity or throwing an error --- but if an error,
it should only be about inf-out-with-non-inf-in, not comparisons to any
artificial MAX/MIN values.

Anyone else have an opinion about this?

			regards, tom lane