From: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: floating point representationu |
Date: | 2001-02-20 04:27:56 |
Message-ID: | 3A91F24C.88BA8B2E@tpf.co.jp |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > > >From the first I don't want to change the current default
> > > > output format
> > > > "%." #FLT_DIG "g" (REAL)
> > > > "%." #DBL_DIG "g" (DOUBLE PRECISION)
> > > > for 7.1 because their changes would cause a regress
> > > > test failure.
> > >
> > > But we run regress with the proper setting, right?> How does giving
> > > people the ability to change the defaults affect the regression tests?
> > >
> >
> > Hmm I'm afraid I'm misunderstanding your point.
> > If the default float4(8) output format would be the
> > same as current output format then we would have no
> > problem with the current regress test. But there
> > could be a choise to change default output format
> > to have a large enough presision to distinguish
> > float4(8).
>
> But are they going to change the default to run the regression tests?
> How do they change it? in ~/.psqlrc?
>
Probably there's a misunderstanding between you and I
but unfortunaltely I don't understand what it is in my
poor English.
Anyway in my plan(current format as default) there would
be no problem with regress test at least for 7.1.
Regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
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