Re: Floating point error

>>>>> "TD" == Tom Duffey <tduffey@trillitech.com> writes:

TD> We have a script thatb uses COPY to transfer a subset of rows
TD> from a very large production table to a test table. The script
TD> was not setting extra_float_digits so the values did not match
TD> even though they appeared to match when running queries in psql.

Incidently, this is a prime example of where the hexidecimal format
for floats would benefit pg, as it makes the text format for floats
just as suitable for round-tripping as the binary format.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6