| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers? |
| Date: | 2010-12-17 23:49:00 |
| Message-ID: | 4D0BF6EC.2090309@agliodbs.com |
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On 12/17/10 3:34 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> Oh, *I* understand the difference. Any app developer is going to see it
>> as stupidly arbitrary, though.
>
> Speaking as someone who spent 9 years doing app development, I dispute
> the word "any".
Ok, "lots" then. If it's not a good idea to enable that functionality,
then it would be nice to come up with some way to make it more clear why
it's failing.
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-- Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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