Re: floating point representation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: floating point representation
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0102191647510.977-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: floating point representation  (Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>)
Responses Re: floating point representation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: floating point representation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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 ..
>
> 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.

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

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



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