From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Wider than float8 |
Date: | 2007-06-08 19:00:35 |
Message-ID: | 200706081900.l58J0Zm21666@momjian.us |
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Vincenzo Romano wrote:
> Hi all.
> On most modern CPUs there are numeric representations wider than 8-bytes
> (aka float8 in PGSQL).
>
> For example, Intel/AMD CPUs have native 12-bytes floating point numbers (aka
> long double in C/C++).
>
> I understand that it could not be non-standard from a clean SQL point of view.
> Nonetheless, is there any way to use those "long doubles" in SQL?
No. Frankly I didn't know 12-byte floats were supported in CPUs until
you posted this. You could write your own data type to use it, of
course.
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