Roman Kononov <kononov195-pgsql@yahoo.com> writes:
> On 12/27/2006 03:23 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Are you sure? As I remember, computation automatically upgrades to
>> 'double'. See this program and output:

> This is platform- and compiler- dependent:

.... and probably irrelevant, too. We should store the result into a
float4 variable and then test for isinf() on that; that eliminates the
question of whether the compiler did the multiply in a wider format or
not.

regards, tom lane

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