From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Cc: Tim Hart <tjhart@mac.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] line datatype
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:21:05 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200207161521.g6GFL5417443@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12277.1026827054@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes:
> > The issue is in choosing an external format for LINE which does not lose
> > precision during dump/reload.
>
> Why is this any worse for LINE than for any of the other geometric
> types (or for plain floats, for that matter)?
>
> We do need a solution for exact dump/reload of floating-point data,
> but I don't see why the lack of it should be reason to disable access
> to the LINE type.
I don't understand why dumping the two point values isn't sufficient.
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