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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: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2019-01-11T04:09:15Z
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> 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.

Non-ASCII filenames seem right out.  I thought the question was
about whether we even want to have non-ASCII characters within
source code (my view: avoid if possible) or in docs (we do,
but it's better if you can make it into html entities).

			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.