Brendan Jurd escreveu: > Hmm. For what it's worth, I think Pavel makes a good point about the > number of exponent digits -- a large chunk of the use case for numeric > formatting would be fixed-width reporting. > But it doesn't cover all numbers in the interval. And in this case, all numbers can be easily represented.
> Limiting to two exponent digits also has the nice property that the > output always matches the length of the format pattern: > > 9.99EEEE > 1.23E+02 > I don't think neglecting to represent a valid number is a "nice property". What does the length of format pattern have to do with output format? -- Euler Taveira de Oliveira http://www.timbira.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
