| From: | "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at> |
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| To: | "Pedro M(dot) Ferreira" <pfrazao(at)ualg(dot)pt> |
| Cc: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: float output precision questions |
| Date: | 2002-10-31 14:28:48 |
| Message-ID: | 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA4961EDD@m0114.s-mxs.net |
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> Maybe it makes sense that in the proposal below the parameter
> EXTRA_DIGITS could be SIGNIFICANT_DIGITS with a default value
> of 15 and maximum 18.
> Its more 'documentable' and maybe easy to understand in general.
Yes agree (or double_significant_digits or format_double_digits ?),
but default to DBL_DIG and allow range between 1 and DBL_DIG + 3.
format_* could be used for all future output format tweaks.
Unfortunately %A is not portable :-(
Andreas
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