From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200306162335.h5GNZxE26867@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Our FLOAT(p) precision does not conform to spec
In-Reply-To: <7114.1055801746@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:35:59 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Is it worth trying to provide some sort of backwards-compatibility mode?
> We could imagine adding a GUC variable to select binary or decimal
> precision, but I really don't want to.  It would increase the amount of
> work needed by more than an order of magnitude, and this problem doesn't
> seem worth it.  I'd rather just list this under Incompatibilities in the
> 7.4 release notes.

Let's just change it and list it in the release notes as an
incompatibility --- anything else is too confusing.

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