From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Make Windows print float exponents like everybody else?
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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 18:00:54 -0400
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I can't believe I got no comments about this, so reposting it under
a more attention-getting title ...

In https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/29037.1539021687@sss.pgh.pa.us
I wrote:

> Also, we have quite a few variant expected-files that exist only to cater
> for Windows' habit of printing three exponent digits where everybody else
> prints just two.  It struck me that it would not be hard, or expensive,
> to undo that choice in snprintf.c (see attached untested patch).  So we
> could considerably reduce future maintenance pain for the affected tests
> by getting rid of those files.
>
> As against that, Windows users might possibly complain that float output
> looks different than they're used to.  I'm not sure how much sympathy
> I have for that position.  If we reimplement float output for more speed,
> as is under discussion in nearby threads, I doubt we'd trouble to preserve
> this Windows-ism in the rewrite.
>
> Comments?

If I don't get any pushback I'm going to go do that...

			regards, tom lane