| From: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | eugeny(at)zhuzhnev(dot)com, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #17866: behavior does not match documentation |
| Date: | 2023-03-23 22:00:24 |
| Message-ID: | 3605E583-D445-42E8-8AA6-A9E6136EA0E1@yesql.se |
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> On 23 Mar 2023, at 22:54, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>> On 23 Mar 2023, at 19:31, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I wonder if we should rethink that and have these operations strip
>>> insignificant trailing zeroes.
>
>> Any app relying on insignificant trailing zeroes seems broken, but the inverse
>> can be argued as well. It's however quite easy to argue for the stripped
>> output being more readable though.
>
> It's more readable for sure, and it duplicates what you got in pre-v14
> versions, at least textually. I'm not sure I'd propose back-patching
> this, but it feels like a good idea for HEAD.
Agreed, I don't think this is material for backpatching.
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Daniel Gustafsson
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