Tom Lane writes:
> This is a straightforward change and would not break pg_dump files,
> since fortunately pg_dump always references the underlying types and
> never refers to anything as FLOAT(p). But I wonder whether it is
> likely to break many existing applications. There is a hazard of some
> existing app asking for (what it thinks is) float8 and getting float4
> instead.
Considering that the data type float(x) isn't documented anywhere, I'm not
worried.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
