Re: Ryu floating point output patch

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2019-01-11T04:04:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2019-01-10 23:02:01 -0500, Chapman Flack wrote:
> Does the project have an established view on non-ASCII names in
> sources or docs?
> 
> AFAICS [1], the name of the algorithm may be Ryū.

I think it'd be a really bad idea to start having non-ascii
filenames, and I quite doubt that I'm alone in that.

- Andres


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.