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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: floating point representation
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In response to Re: floating point representation  (Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>)
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Hiroshi Inoue writes:

> The 7.1-release seems near.
> May I provide the followings ?
>     SET FLOAT4_PRECISION TO ..
>     SET FLOAT8_PRECISION TO ..

I'd prefer names that go with the SQL type names:

REAL_FORMAT
DOUBLE_PRECISION_FORMAT

Seems a bit tacky, but a lot of work has been put in to make these names
more prominent.

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/

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