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The IEEE 754 standard allows a wide variety of bit patterns for NaNs, of which at least two ("NaN" and "-NaN") are pretty easy to produce from SQL on most machines. This is problematic because our btree comparison functions deem all NaNs to be equal, but our float hash functions know nothing about NaNs and will happily produce varying hash codes for them. That causes unexpected results from queries that hash a column containing different NaN values. It could also produce unexpected lookup failures when using a hash index on a float column, i.e. "WHERE x = 'NaN'" will not find all the rows it should. To fix, special-case NaN in the float hash functions, not too much unlike the existing special case that forces zero and minus zero to hash the same. I arranged for the most vanilla sort of NaN (that coming from the C99 NAN constant) to still have the same hash code as before, to reduce the risk to existing hash indexes. I dithered about whether to back-patch this into stable branches, but ultimately decided to do so. It's a clear improvement for queries that hash internally. If there is anybody who has -NaN in a hash index, they'd be well advised to re-index after applying this patch ... but the misbehavior if they don't will not be much worse than the misbehavior they had before. Per bug #17172 from Ma Liangzhu. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17172-7505bea9e04e230f@postgresql.org |
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PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/ See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.