Re: Our FLOAT(p) precision does not conform to spec - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Our FLOAT(p) precision does not conform to spec
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Msg-id 200306162335.h5GNZxE26867@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Our FLOAT(p) precision does not conform to spec  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Is it worth trying to provide some sort of backwards-compatibility mode?
> We could imagine adding a GUC variable to select binary or decimal
> precision, but I really don't want to.  It would increase the amount of
> work needed by more than an order of magnitude, and this problem doesn't
> seem worth it.  I'd rather just list this under Incompatibilities in the
> 7.4 release notes.

Let's just change it and list it in the release notes as an
incompatibility --- anything else is too confusing.

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