"Pedro M. Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have two parameters, say DOUBLE_OUTPUT and EXTRA_DIGITS. DOUBLE_OUTPUT > would select from decimal output or normalized output. EXTRA_DIGITS > would add the required extra digits, from 0 (default) to 3, when output > is decimal.
I'm not happy with adding the hex-output option, since it's not very portable and doesn't seem necessary to solve the problem anyway. But I think an EXTRA_DIGITS setting might be interesting. In particular, suppose we allowed EXTRA_DIGITS to be negative? Setting it to -1 or -2 would go a long way towards eliminating our problems with platform variations in the geometry regression test. Perhaps something like extra_float_digits int range -2 to 2, default 0 extra_float_digits adjusts the number of digits displayed for float4 and float8 output; the base value of 0 means we output FLT_DIG or DBL_DIG digits respectively. Per discussion, there's no reason to allow a value greater than 2, but I'm not as sure what the lower limit should be --- maybe there's some use in setting it less than -2? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly