Re: [HACKERS] floating point representation

[Tom Lane]

Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Or must we postpone to fix it ?

> Actually, you're going to have to recode the float*in() functions, using
> scanf, and scanf's formats are not always equivalent to printf's.

Hmm... that wouldn't matter, except for this %a format.  Maybe we'd
better not try to make this happen in the waning days of the 7.1 cycle.

> And what about the geometry types that are based on floats?

They should track the float8 format, certainly.

                        regards, tom lane