Re: Wider than float8

felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:00:35PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > No.  Frankly I didn't know 12-byte floats were supported in CPUs until
> > you posted this.  You could write your own data type to use it, of
> > course.
>
> I didn't either, and have no use for them, but curiousity compels me
> to wonder how hard this would be.  I don't have the sources right at
> hand.  Is all float8 code in one source file, and would it be a pretty
> simple matter to add float 12 with a search and replace and not much
> more?

You would look in src/backend/utils/adt/float.c for the existing float8
data types, and in /contrib for examples of creating data types that are
not in the backend by default.

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