Re: floating point representation

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pete Forman <pete(dot)forman(at)westerngeco(dot)com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: floating point representation
Date: 2001-02-20 21:29:19
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0102202228520.938-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> And we frequently see questions from users about how they can display
> fewer digits than the system wants to give them --- or, more
> generally, format the output in some special form.

to_char() should serve those people.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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