| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| 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 21:26:21 |
| Message-ID: | 6646.982704381@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> 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.
Only if they're willing to go through and change all their queries.
The geometry regress tests seem a good counterexample: one SET at the
top versus a lot of rewriting.
regards, tom lane
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