Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> 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