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. -- Bruce Momjian maillist@candle.pha.pa.us