On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:38:44AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > That would depend on how many places there are where SIGFPE is expected. > > Are we sure there are any? Maybe we should just remove the handler and > > let SIGFPE be treated as a core dump. > > No clue. According to Wikipedia, it is commonly caused by dividing by > zero, or by dividing by INT_MIN by -1, resulting in a quotient out of > range for the type. I'd be willing to bet that we have got all the > division-by-zero cases patched up just because we try pretty hard to > emit the right error message for such cases, but I'm a lot less > certain that things like INT_MIN/-1 can't happen anywhere.
[local] test=# select -9223372036854775808/-1; ERROR: floating-point exception -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers