On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 09:02, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> writes:
> > I don't really agree that it will work fine in all cases though. If
> > the numeric has more than 1000 digits left of the decimal point then
> > the method won't work at all.
>
> But what we're talking about is starting from a float4 or float8
> input, so it can't be more than ~308 digits.
I may have misunderstood. I thought David J was proposing this as a
useful method for rounding numeric too. Re-reading what he wrote, I no
longer think he was.
David
