>>>>> "HL" == Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: HL> It would be nice to have a base-2 text format to represent floats. HL> It wouldn't be as human-friendly as base-10, but it could be used HL> when you don't want to lose precision. pg_dump in particular. hexidecimal notation for floats exists. The printf format flag is %a for miniscule and %A for majuscule. The result of 1./3. is 0xa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaabp-5. This site has some info and a conversion demo: http://gregstoll.dyndns.org/~gregstoll/floattohex/ -JimC -- James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
