Tom Duffey wrote (on -general):
> To bring closure to this thread, my whole problem was caused by not knowing 
> about the
> extra_float_digits setting. We have a script that uses COPY to transfer a 
> subset of rows from a very
> large production table to a test table. The script was not setting 
> extra_float_digits so the values
> did not match even though they appeared to match when running queries in 
> psql. Definitely another
> gotcha for floating point values and it might be a good idea to mention this 
> setting on the "Numeric
> Types" page of the docs.

True; how about this patch.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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Description: float.patch

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