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There was some very strange code here, dating to commitb525bf77, that purported to work around an ancient gcc bug by forcing a float4 comparison to be done as int instead. Commit5871b8848broke that when it changed one side of the comparison to "double" but left the comparison code alone. Commitf576b17cddoubled down on the weirdness by introducing a "volatile" marker, which had nothing to do with the actual problem. Guess that the gcc bug, even if it's still present in the wild, was triggered by comparison of float4's and can be avoided if we store the result of cnt_sml() into a double before comparing to the double "nlimit". This will at least work correctly on non-broken compilers, and it's way more readable. Per bug #14202 from Greg Navis. Add a regression test based on his example. Report: <20160620115321.5792.10766@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.