Bruno Wolff III writes:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 23:19:05 +0100,
> Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > There isn't a way right now, but it's planned to be able to dump
> > floating-point numbers in some binary form (like printf("%A")) to be able
> > to restore them exactly. Not sure how that would satisfy the needs of
> > client interfaces, though.
>
> Why not print it as a floating binary number instead of a floating decimal
> number? I would think that would give you better portability than a system
> specific binary representation.
The printf("%A") output is not system-specific.
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