Wider than float8

From: Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Wider than float8
Date: 2007-06-08 14:09:10
Message-ID: 200706081609.10192.vincenzo.romano@gmail.com
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Hi all.
On most modern CPUs there are numeric representations wider than 8-bytes
(aka float8 in PGSQL).

For example, Intel/AMD CPUs have native 12-bytes floating point numbers (aka
long double in C/C++).

I understand that it could not be non-standard from a clean SQL point of view.
Nonetheless, is there any way to use those "long doubles" in SQL?

Many thanks.

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Vincenzo Romano
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