| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Nicola Larosa <nico(at)tekNico(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Decimal digits in timeofday() |
| Date: | 2001-10-24 19:51:24 |
| Message-ID: | 22087.1003953084@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Nicola Larosa <nico(at)tekNico(dot)net> writes:
> There's a cute little bug somewhere.
Only that the default display precision for float8 is 15 digits.
regression=# SELECT date_part('epoch', now());
date_part
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1003952920.01861
(1 row)
regression=# select '1003952920.01861'::float8;
float8
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1003952920.01861
(1 row)
regression=# select '1003952920.018612'::float8;
float8
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1003952920.01861
(1 row)
regression=# select '1003952920.018612'::float8 - 1003952920.0;
?column?
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0.0186120271682739
(1 row)
regression=#
regards, tom lane
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