Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
> The other issues, like what is sent to psql & via interfaces like odbc
> (currently text) should be application/DBA based and setable on a
> per-attribute basis. eg. some applications want 1.0000 because the data
> came from a piece of hardware with a know error, and 1.0000 means 1.0000+/-
> 0.00005 etc. Maybe this is just an argument for a new 'number with error'
> type...
FWIW, there is a number-with-error type in contrib/seg ...
regards, tom lane
