| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | 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>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: floating point representation |
| Date: | 2001-02-20 20:58:29 |
| Message-ID: | 200102202058.PAA22013@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I think the idea of making a user-settable format string is a good one.
> I'm just afraid of the idea of trying to shoehorn in a solution at the
> last minute; if we do, we may find it's not quite right and then have
> a backwards-compatibility problem with fixing it. Besides, we are in
> "no new features" mode during beta. I think it should wait for 7.2.
Agreed. I have the items on the TODO list.
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