[Pkg-postgresql-public] [pgsql-pkg-debian] Debian packaging of the q3c and pgsphere extensions

[Christoph Berg]

Re: To Ole Streicher 2017-08-07 <20170807193234.2tubkvnei75yqvh3 at msg.df7cb.de>
> Sorry I spoke too soon - sid/amd64 works, but ppc64el has problems:
> 
> 00:06:24.415 cat sql/ellipse.sql | psql q3c_test > results/ellipse.out
> 00:06:31.011 diff results/ellipse.out expected/ellipse.expected
> 00:06:31.012 2838c2838
> 00:06:31.012 <    804
> 00:06:31.012 ---
> 00:06:31.012 >    803

The problem is in pgq3c_ellipse_query_it/q3c_ellipse_query. I haven't
debugged anything, but my bet would be on floating point differences
on ppc64el, maybe because of floating point contraction (fmadd, fused
multiply add). I've had such a case before, but there only
Ubuntu/ppc64el was affected.

Christoph