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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c
index 45a62f26161..18b3b949acb 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/float.c
@@ -1462,25 +1462,6 @@ dpow(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
float8 result;
/*
- * The POSIX spec says that NaN ^ 0 = 1, and 1 ^ NaN = 1, while all other
- * cases with NaN inputs yield NaN (with no error). Many older platforms
- * get one or more of these cases wrong, so deal with them via explicit
- * logic rather than trusting pow(3).
- */
- if (isnan(arg1))
- {
- if (isnan(arg2) || arg2 != 0.0)
- PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(get_float8_nan());
- PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(1.0);
- }
- if (isnan(arg2))
- {
- if (arg1 != 1.0)
- PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(get_float8_nan());
- PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(1.0);
- }
-
- /*
* The SQL spec requires that we emit a particular SQLSTATE error code for
* certain error conditions. Specifically, we don't return a
* divide-by-zero error code for 0 ^ -1.
@@ -1498,7 +1479,7 @@ dpow(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
* pow() sets errno only on some platforms, depending on whether it
* follows _IEEE_, _POSIX_, _XOPEN_, or _SVID_, so we try to avoid using
* errno. However, some platform/CPU combinations return errno == EDOM
- * and result == NaN for negative arg1 and very large arg2 (they must be
+ * and result == Nan for negative arg1 and very large arg2 (they must be
* using something different from our floor() test to decide it's
* invalid). Other platforms (HPPA) return errno == ERANGE and a large
* (HUGE_VAL) but finite result to signal overflow.