I can't believe I got no comments about this, so reposting it under a more attention-getting title ...
In https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/29037.1539021...@sss.pgh.pa.us I wrote: > Also, we have quite a few variant expected-files that exist only to cater > for Windows' habit of printing three exponent digits where everybody else > prints just two. It struck me that it would not be hard, or expensive, > to undo that choice in snprintf.c (see attached untested patch). So we > could considerably reduce future maintenance pain for the affected tests > by getting rid of those files. > > As against that, Windows users might possibly complain that float output > looks different than they're used to. I'm not sure how much sympathy > I have for that position. If we reimplement float output for more speed, > as is under discussion in nearby threads, I doubt we'd trouble to preserve > this Windows-ism in the rewrite. > > Comments? If I don't get any pushback I'm going to go do that... regards, tom lane
