On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Kevin Grittner
<kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> These are approximate data types. On what basis do you think the
> values returned in your examples are wrong? The demonstrated
Because PostgreSQL still has access to all the significant digits:
test1=# SELECT f FROM t WHERE id = 1;
f
-----------------
5.63219288e-032
(1 row)
Since floats are stored with a significand and an exponent, to_char()
should be able to convert 5.6e-32 to text just as easily as it can
convert 5.6e-3. For some reason, it doesn't.
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