| From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westerngeco(dot)com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: floating point representation |
| Date: | 2001-02-20 23:07:59 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20010221100759.02e74940@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 22:29 20/02/01 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Tom Lane writes:
>> And we frequently see questions from users about how they can display
>> fewer digits than the system wants to give them --- or, more
>> generally, format the output in some special form.
>
>to_char() should serve those people.
>
This is not a good solution if what you want (as a user) is consistency of
output no matter who retrieves the data; people should not have to wrap
every SELECT field in to_char to get the precision/format they want.
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