Hi, thanks for chiming in. On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 22:08, Jeroen Vermeulen <j...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > AIUI that is defined to be a little vague, but includes denormalized numbers > that would undergo any rounding at all. It says that on overflow the > conversion should return the appropriate HUGE_VAL variant, and set ERANGE. > On underflow it returns a reasonably appropriate value (and either may or > must set ERANGE, which is the part that isn't clear to me).
Which standard is that? Does IEEE 754 itself define strtod() or is there another relevant standard? Regards, Marti -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers