Re: [HACKERS] floating point representation

[Tom Lane]

Hiroshi Inoue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The defaults
>> would be "%.7g" and "%.17g" (or thereabouts, not sure what number of
>> digits we are currently using).

> Wouldn't changing current '%.6g','%.15g'(on many platforms)
> cause the regression test failure ? 

I didn't check my numbers.  If the current behavior is '%.6g','%.15g'
then we should stay with that as the default.

Hmm, on looking at the code, this might mean we need some configure
pushups to extract FLT_DIG and DBL_DIG and put those into the default
strings.  Do we support any platforms where these are not 6 & 15?

                        regards, tom lane