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Tomas Vondra authored
This patch makes the geometric operators and functions use the exported function of the float4/float8 datatypes. The main reason of doing so is to check for underflow and overflow, and to handle NaNs consciously. The float datatypes consider NaNs values to be equal and greater than all non-NaN values. This change considers NaNs equal only for equality operators. The placement operators, contains, overlaps, left/right of etc. continue to return false when NaNs are involved. We don't need to worry about them being considered greater than any-NaN because there aren't any basic comparison operators like less/greater than for the geometric datatypes. The changes may be summarised as: * Check for underflow, overflow and division by zero * Consider NaN values to be equal * Return NULL when the distance is NaN for all closest point operators * Favour not-NaN over NaN where it makes sense The patch also replaces all occurrences of "double" as "float8". They are the same, but were used inconsistently in the same file. Author: Emre Hasegeli Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAE2gYzxF7-5djV6-cEvqQu-fNsnt%3DEqbOURx7ZDg%2BVv6ZMTWbg%40mail.gmail.com
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