Re: Wider than float8

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:00:35PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> No. Frankly I didn't know 12-byte floats were supported in CPUs until
> you posted this. You could write your own data type to use it, of
> course.

I didn't either, and have no use for them, but curiousity compels me
to wonder how hard this would be. I don't have the sources right at
hand. Is all float8 code in one source file, and would it be a pretty
simple matter to add float 12 with a search and replace and not much
more?

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