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Re: Ryu floating point output patch

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-12-14T18:47:53Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-12-14 13:25:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The maintenance track record of this github repo appears to span six
>> months, and it's now been about four months since the last commit.
>> It might be abandonware already.

> The last commit was a month ago, no? November 6th afaict.

Hmm, the commit history I was looking at ended on Aug 19, but I must've
done something wrong, because going in from a different angle shows
me commits up to November.

> It's been absorbed into MSVC's standard library and a bunch of other
> projects, so there's certainly some other prominent adoption.

If we think that's going on, maybe we should just sit tight till glibc
absorbs it.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Provide an extra-float-digits setting for pg_dump / pg_dumpall

  2. Change floating-point output format for improved performance.

  3. Use strtof() and not strtod() for float4 input.