Re: double and numeric conversion

Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I'm writing some extension and I have a hot code path that has a lot of double (C type) data and needs to output
NUMERICtuple data.  The current methods I can find in the code to convert sprintf the double to a buffer and then
invokethe numeric_in function on them.  I've profile my stuff and I'm spending (wasting) all my time in that
conversion. Is there a more efficient method of converting a double into a postgres numeric value?
 
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float8_numeric() ? Although it uses sprintf too, by the look of it.

cheers

andrew