Re: floating point representation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: floating point representation
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Msg-id 25189.982599873@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: floating point representation  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> Or must we postpone to fix it ?

> Actually, you're going to have to recode the float*in() functions, using
> scanf, and scanf's formats are not always equivalent to printf's.

Hmm... that wouldn't matter, except for this %a format.  Maybe we'd
better not try to make this happen in the waning days of the 7.1 cycle.

> And what about the geometry types that are based on floats?

They should track the float8 format, certainly.
        regards, tom lane


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