From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Romanenko Mikhail <mikhail(at)angg(dot)ru>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Trouble with float4 afterupgrading from 6.5.3 to 7.0.2 |
Date: | 2000-08-08 13:53:18 |
Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20000808235318.01e69df0@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 05:50 8/08/00 -0700, Don Baccus wrote:
>
>The simplest thing is to realize that using float4 leaves you with
>just over 7 significant digits, and to only print out 7 digits.
>Then you'll get the answer you expect (10.100000).
>
You may have missed the point; my suggestions are only aimed at changing
the results of float4/float8 conversions & comparisons.
My (very vague) recollections of this stuff is that the machine
representation is only guaranteed to be within a certain machine/language
accuracy, so the stored value is within +/-(machine error) of the 'real
value'. Further, my recollection is that one or more bits are usually used
to provide rounding information so that, eg., the 7 digit representations
are consistent.
Given this, I have assumed that printf etc use these least significant bits
to determine the 'correct' representation. The idea is to do exactly the
same in converting float4 to float8, so that:
'4.1'::float4 = '4.1'::float8
will be true.
Maybe my recollection is false...
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