Re: floating point representationu

> > > >From the first I don't want to change the current default
> > > output format
> > >       "%." #FLT_DIG "g" (REAL)
> > >       "%." #DBL_DIG "g" (DOUBLE PRECISION)
> > > for 7.1 because their changes would cause a regress
> > > test failure.
> > 
> > But we run regress with the proper setting, right?> How does giving
> > people the ability to change the defaults affect the regression tests?
> > 
> 
> Hmm I'm afraid I'm misunderstanding your point.
> If the default float4(8) output format would be the
> same as current output format then we would have no
> problem with the current regress test. But there
> could be a choise to change default output format
> to have a large enough presision to distinguish
> float4(8).

But are they going to change the default to run the regression tests? 
How do they change it?  in ~/.psqlrc?

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