| From: | Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format |
| Date: | 2009-08-03 02:10:07 |
| Message-ID: | 37ed240d0908021910t597c3f3bpbf69c0b244275ef8@mail.gmail.com |
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2009/8/3 Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>:
> Brendan Jurd escreveu:
>> Euler, could you post results for a number which fits within Oracle's
>> data type but has three exponent digits (like 1E+100)?
>>
> I don't access to an Oracle Server now but it works fine up to the 127 limit.
> And differently to what Pavel proposed, the number of E's is not related to
> the number of characters (at least not anymore). So I would like to see the
> EEEE being used if we have 2 or 3 exponent digits (that is the same behavior
> Oracle has).
>
Okay, so Oracle just forces the output wider to accomodate the
exponent (i.e., you can't rely on it being fixed-width).
I can adjust the patch to imitate this behaviour; should be able to
post a new revision within 24 hours.
Cheers,
BJ
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