Re: extra_float_digits question

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: extra_float_digits question
Date: 2003-10-06 06:41:20
Message-ID: 3F810E90.1060507@familyhealth.com.au
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>>During a pg_dump, does the extra_float_digits option only affect the
>>COPY data, or could it possibly also affect column defaults, view
>>definitions, etc?
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>
> It applies to any output of a float4 or float8 value, so yeah it could
> affect display of column defaults etc. Is this bad?

No, it's OK. I'm just writing a table structure dumping function for
phpPgAdmin, and I was wondering if I need to bother with
extra_float_digits just for the structure or not.

I guess I do.

Chris

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