>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
JC> That said, the possiblity of hex i/o format for the float datatypes
JC> would be welcome.
TL> It's unportable, for two different reasons:
TL> 2. The printf specifiers you want us to rely on are not standard.
They are in C99.
TL> 1. pg_dump output would become platform-specific. This is highly
TL> undesirable.
It is true that pg would have to test for them in configure and supply
alternative code wherever libc fails to support them.
I can readily accept that there are many more pressing needs.
But would such a patch for master be rejected?
-JimC
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