| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | tih(at)Hamartun(dot)Priv(dot)NO (Tom I Helbekkmo) |
| Cc: | meskes(at)topsystem(dot)de, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Bug? |
| Date: | 1998-02-07 05:36:26 |
| Message-ID: | 199802070536.AAA06737@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> However: do we really want to do this anyway? If you demand that the
> user indicate whether a given constant is integer or real, you lessen
> the risk of doing the wrong thing with his or her data. Specifically,
> going to floating point means giving up accuracy in representation,
> and this may not be something we want to do without user permission.
>
I never auto-convert integer to float unless I have to.
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Bruce Momjian
maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us
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