Vincenzo Romano wrote: > Hi all. > On most modern CPUs there are numeric representations wider than 8-bytes > (aka float8 in PGSQL). > > For example, Intel/AMD CPUs have native 12-bytes floating point numbers (aka > long double in C/C++). > > I understand that it could not be non-standard from a clean SQL point of view. > Nonetheless, is there any way to use those "long doubles" in SQL? No. Frankly I didn't know 12-byte floats were supported in CPUs until you posted this. You could write your own data type to use it, of course. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +