Thanks for the reply Bruce. Ok, then I know. I will probably solve it by taking the produced Latex table and do some
parsingto convert numbers into scientific notion.
What language is used for patches?
/ Peter
On 2012-10-16, at 20:29 , Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 07:47:37PM +0200, Peter Wintoft wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am quite new to Postgresql, but I have used MySQL quite a lot. But
>> now I'm thinking of switching for several different reasons, and one
>> of them is that I found that you can get output formatted as a Latex
>> table. Excellent.
>>
>> Now to my question: Is it possible to get decimal numbers in
>> scientific notation, so that e.g. 0.052 becomes $5.2 \cdot 10^{-2}$ ?
>
> Uh, well, our Latex output hasn't been improved in quite some time, but
> we are willing to accept patches to improve it. Someone previously was
> working on making the table output more flexible, but never submitted a
> patch.
>
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