On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
I'd be inclined to leave the mapping alone and just insert a warning
(or hard error) for inputs outside the range -1 to 1.
Here's a patch that errors out for out of range values.
Kris JurkaIndex: doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
I'd be inclined to leave the mapping alone and just insert a warning
(or hard error) for inputs outside the range -1 to 1.
Here's a patch that errors out for out of range values.
Applied, thanks.
Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
It's not really possible to use it incorrectly, AFAICS. Any value you
might pass to it will result in a specific new seed value. Nowhere is
there any guarantee of what the mapping is, and it's obviously
impossible to
This has been saved for the 8.4 release:
http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches_hold
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Kris Jurka wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
It's not really possible to use it incorrectly,
Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why doesn't setseed complain when given a seed value outside of its
expected range?
Why should it complain? The use of the value is totally unspecified
anyway.
regards, tom lane
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why doesn't setseed complain when given a seed value outside of its
expected range?
Why should it complain? The use of the value is totally unspecified
anyway.
Because the user is likely using it incorrectly.
Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why doesn't setseed complain when given a seed value outside of its
expected range?
Why should it complain? The use of the value is totally unspecified
anyway.
Because the user
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
It's not really possible to use it incorrectly, AFAICS. Any value you
might pass to it will result in a specific new seed value. Nowhere is
there any guarantee of what the mapping is, and it's obviously
impossible to guarantee that the mapping is
