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Old 05-05-2008, 05:53 AM
Andrew Dunstan
 
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Default Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Sigh ...



Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> This doesn't look quite right; unless the arithmetic is being done in
>>> floating point? I had it like this in configure.in:
>>>
>>> RELSEG_SIZE=`expr '(' 1024 '*' ${segsize} / ${blocksize} ')' '*' 1024`
>>>

>
>
>> blocksize is one of (1,2,4,8,16,32) so it should always be a factor of
>> 1024 unless my arithmetic is awry. I did it that way because I dislike
>> expressions with unbracketed mixed operations - they make me think too
>> much.
>>

>
> Well, if you dislike the original on style grounds, you should change it
> to match. Doing the same thing in two different ways in two places
> isn't good.
>


OK, done. Patch applied with that addition (it was time I deployed
autoconf 2.61 anyway).

cheers

andrew


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