On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:35 PM, James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> wrote: >>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > > JC> That said, the possiblity of hex i/o format for the float datatypes > JC> would be welcome. > > TL> It's unportable, for two different reasons: > > TL> 2. The printf specifiers you want us to rely on are not standard. > > They are in C99. > > TL> 1. pg_dump output would become platform-specific. This is highly > TL> undesirable. > > It is true that pg would have to test for them in configure and supply > alternative code wherever libc fails to support them. > > I can readily accept that there are many more pressing needs. > > But would such a patch for master be rejected?
Let me back up a few steps and ask why you want this in the first place. If there's a real problem here, we should solve it, either in the way you've proposed or in some other manner. But you haven't really said what problem you're trying to solve - just that it would be "welcome", which leaves much to my (not very good) imagination. This is quite a bit OT for this thread so if you want to pursue this I'd suggest starting a new thread in which you start by laying out your case for doing this. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
