From: | <vectro(at)pipeline(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Romanenko Mikhail <mikhail(at)angg(dot)ru>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Trouble with float4 afterupgrading from 6.5.3 to 7.0.2 |
Date: | 2000-08-06 21:36:19 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.10.10008061433470.22893-100000@nemo.house |
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> I suppose we could implement the conversion as "float8in(float4out(x))"
> instead of "(double) x" but it'd be several orders of magnitude slower,
> as well as being *less* useful to those who know what they're doing with
> float math (since the result would actually be a less-precise conversion
> except in cases where the intended value has a short decimal
> representation).
We only need to maintain the lower-order bit(s). Seems this could be done
a lot easier than by an ascii in-between.
Is there a reason we can't perform the conversion and then copy the
low-order bits manually, with some bit-shifting and masking?
Ian
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