check was added to prevent building on clang/i386 unless either -msse2 is used (restricting cpu support which we don't want), or the compiler gains support for -fexcess-precision=standard. Discussion leading up to the added check: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20180904161624.57e68b3a%40fafnir.local.vm Upstream commit: https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/bd1463e348fcf ok pea@