Re: [HACKERS] Bug?

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO (Tom I Helbekkmo)
Cc: meskes@topsystem.de, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-02-07T05:36:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> However: do we really want to do this anyway?  If you demand that the
> user indicate whether a given constant is integer or real, you lessen
> the risk of doing the wrong thing with his or her data.  Specifically,
> going to floating point means giving up accuracy in representation,
> and this may not be something we want to do without user permission.
> 

I never auto-convert integer to float unless I have to.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us