Re: float output precision questions

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:58:21 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> But I think an EXTRA_DIGITS setting might be interesting.  In
> particular, suppose we allowed EXTRA_DIGITS to be negative?  Setting
> it to -1 or -2 would go a long way towards eliminating our problems
> with platform variations in the geometry regression test.

My attempt to avoid this problem with the earthdistance regression used
a cast to numeric to limit the number of digits to the right of the
decimal point.

If the normal number of digits displayed is different between two systems,
than displaying a fixed number less digits is still going to result in
differences.