Re: float8 auto truncation issue in ODBC v. PGSQL

Tom Lane wrote:
 > By default, the float8 output routine prints a digit or so less than it
 > could, precisely to avoid that sort of unsightly result.  You can fool
 > with float_extra_digits (I think that's the right name, check the docs)
 > if you need to adjust this behavior.

Thanks Tom,

You rock.  The option is extra_float_digits.  I figured Postgres would
have something handy like this available.  I just set that to "2" in my
postgresql.conf (the maximum allowed value), and the psql queries return
what I was trying to get.

 > This would only matter within a plpgsql function if you are doing
 > something that forces the binary value to be converted to text.  Which,
 > if you're doing tense float computation, you probably don't want to have
 > happen at all.

Yes, I'll have to look into this a bit more as the correct value still
doesn't seem to be coming out of my function.

John