On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 23:19:05 +0100,
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> There isn't a way right now, but it's planned to be able to dump
> floating-point numbers in some binary form (like printf("%A")) to be able
> to restore them exactly. Not sure how that would satisfy the needs of
> client interfaces, though.
Why not print it as a floating binary number instead of a floating decimal
number? I would think that would give you better portability than a system
specific binary representation.