Re: floating point representation

At 22:29 20/02/01 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Tom Lane writes:
>> And we frequently see questions from users about how they can display
>> fewer digits than the system wants to give them --- or, more
>> generally, format the output in some special form.
>
>to_char() should serve those people.
>

This is not a good solution if what you want (as a user) is consistency of
output no matter who retrieves the data; people should not have to wrap
every SELECT field in to_char to get the precision/format they want.


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