Re: Float output formatting options

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Pedro M(dot) Ferreira" <pfrazao(at)ualg(dot)pt>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Float output formatting options
Date: 2002-11-05 01:43:26
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOEEGPCEAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> > Perhaps P_MAXLEN now needs to be (2*(DBL_DIG+2+7)+1), considering
> > that we'll allow extra_float_digits to be up to 2. What's it used for?
>
> Yes. I guess so, because it is used in what I think is a memory
> allocation function. P_MAXLEN is only used twice:

Curse my slowness, but what's the actual problem being fixed here?

Chris

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