Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?
Date: 2010-12-17 23:34:57
Message-ID: AANLkTinf31sPzYMVumaAv9q1ASBa0Gu1tOUGc-bUVcYg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Oh, *I* understand the difference.  Any app developer is going to see it
> as stupidly arbitrary, though.

Speaking as someone who spent 9 years doing app development, I dispute
the word "any".

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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