Tom Lane wrote: > Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The issue is in choosing an external format for LINE which does not lose > > precision during dump/reload. > > Why is this any worse for LINE than for any of the other geometric > types (or for plain floats, for that matter)? > > We do need a solution for exact dump/reload of floating-point data, > but I don't see why the lack of it should be reason to disable access > to the LINE type.
I don't understand why dumping the two point values isn't sufficient. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
