>>>>> "HL" == Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> writes:
HL> It would be nice to have a base-2 text format to represent floats. HL> It wouldn't be as human-friendly as base-10, but it could be used HL> when you don't want to lose precision. pg_dump in particular. hexidecimal notation for floats exists. The printf format flag is %a for miniscule and %A for majuscule. The result of 1./3. is 0xa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaabp-5. This site has some info and a conversion demo: http://gregstoll.dyndns.org/~gregstoll/floattohex/ -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
