Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 16:19, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks for looking. Barring any further comments, I'll push this in a few >> days.
> So I have been testing this a lot over the last couple of days, and I > have concluded that the patch works well as far as it goes, but I did > manage to construct another case where numeric_power() loses > precision. I think, though, that it would be better to tackle that as > a separate patch. It looks like castoroides is not happy with this patch: https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=castoroides&dt=2021-08-01%2008%3A52%3A43 Maybe there's some hidden C99 dependency in what you did? Although pademelon, which is one of our other pre-C99 dinosaurs, doesn't seem to be unhappy. regards, tom lane