| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Liam Stewart <liams(at)redhat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] guc |
| Date: | 2002-01-18 17:19:59 |
| Message-ID: | 7768.1011374399@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Liam Stewart <liams(at)redhat(dot)com> writes:
>>> What I would like to get out of the configurability of floating-point
>>> numbers is:
>>> 1. The ability to dump them in binary or hex format for lossless
>>> dump/reload. (printf("%a") does that.)
>>
>> On some platforms... I'd be happier with this if it were more portable...
> Roll our own? %a and %A are C99 so are much less portable than most
> other printf conversion specifiers.
Hmm ... rolling our own might actually not be too unreasonable ...
and the lack of lossless dump/reload for floats has certainly been
a sore point for a long time, so expending some effort here is
justified.
regards, tom lane
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