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From Vincenzo Romano
Subject Wider than float8
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Msg-id 200706081609.10192.vincenzo.romano@gmail.com
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Responses Re: Wider than float8  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Hi all.
On most modern CPUs there are numeric representations wider than 8-bytes
(aka float8 in PGSQL).

For example, Intel/AMD CPUs have native 12-bytes floating point numbers (aka
long double in C/C++).

I understand that it could not be non-standard from a clean SQL point of view.
Nonetheless, is there any way to use those "long doubles" in SQL?

Many thanks.

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Vincenzo Romano
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