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commit    061c7a3c7adbf366707dd4c7fdfdb606d00b0dd7
Author:   Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date:     Tue Jul 02 16:21:16 2013 +0000

    Mention extra_float_digits in floating point docs
    
    Make it easier for readers of the FP docs to find out about possibly
    truncated values.
    
    Per complaint from Tom Duffey in message
    F0E0F874-C86F-48D1-AA2A-0C5365BF5118@trillitech.com
    
    Author: Albe Laurenz
    Reviewed by: Abhijit Menon-Sen


 doc/src/sgml/config.sgml   |  1 +
 doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index c7d84b59ce2..efac9ebf642 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -5366,6 +5366,7 @@ SET XML OPTION { DOCUMENT | CONTENT };
         partially-significant digits; this is especially useful for dumping
         float data that needs to be restored exactly.  Or it can be set
         negative to suppress unwanted digits.
+        See also <xref linkend="datatype-float">.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index f73e6b2e3a5..87668ea0c1c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -681,6 +681,17 @@ NUMERIC
      from zero will cause an underflow error.
     </para>
 
+    <note>
+     <para>
+      The <xref linkend="guc-extra-float-digits"> setting controls the
+      number of extra significant digits included when a floating point
+      value is converted to text for output.  With the default value of
+      <literal>0</literal>, the output is the same on every platform
+      supported by PostgreSQL.  Increasing it will produce output that
+      more accurately represents the stored value, but may be unportable.
+     </para>
+    </note>
+
     <indexterm>
      <primary>not a number</primary>
      <secondary>double precision</secondary>


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