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From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Float output formatting options
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Msg-id GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOEEGPCEAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: Float output formatting options  ("Pedro M. Ferreira" <pfrazao@ualg.pt>)
Responses Re: Float output formatting options  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> > Perhaps P_MAXLEN now needs to be (2*(DBL_DIG+2+7)+1), considering
> > that we'll allow extra_float_digits to be up to 2.  What's it used for?
> 
> Yes. I guess so, because it is used in what I think is a memory 
> allocation function. P_MAXLEN is only used twice:

Curse my slowness, but what's the actual problem being fixed here?

Chris

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