This is not a regression test failure, but looks like one...

Version: PostgreSQL 7.4.6 on ia64-hp-hpux11.23, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.4.2

$ file postgres
postgres: ELF-64 executable object file - IA64

$ cat regression.diffs
*** ./expected/float8.out Thu Sep 25 02:58:06 2003
--- ./results/float8.out Wed Feb 16 23:59:29 2005
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*** 249,255 ****
SELECT '' AS bad, f.f1 * '1e200' from FLOAT8_TBL f;
ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow
SELECT '' AS bad, f.f1 ^ '1e200' from FLOAT8_TBL f;
! ERROR: result is out of range
SELECT '' AS bad, ln(f.f1) from FLOAT8_TBL f where f.f1 = '0.0' ;
ERROR: cannot take logarithm of zero
SELECT '' AS bad, ln(f.f1) from FLOAT8_TBL f where f.f1 < '0.0' ;
--- 249,255 ----
SELECT '' AS bad, f.f1 * '1e200' from FLOAT8_TBL f;
ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow
SELECT '' AS bad, f.f1 ^ '1e200' from FLOAT8_TBL f;
! ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow
SELECT '' AS bad, ln(f.f1) from FLOAT8_TBL f where f.f1 = '0.0' ;
ERROR: cannot take logarithm of zero
SELECT '' AS bad, ln(f.f1) from FLOAT8_TBL f where f.f1 < '0.0' ;

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