Re: [HACKERS] floating point representation

[Peter Eisentraut]

Philip Warner writes:

> At 22:29 20/02/01 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >Tom Lane writes:
> >> And we frequently see questions from users about how they can display
> >> fewer digits than the system wants to give them --- or, more
> >> generally, format the output in some special form.
> >
> >to_char() should serve those people.
> >
>
> This is not a good solution if what you want (as a user) is consistency of
> output no matter who retrieves the data; people should not have to wrap
> every SELECT field in to_char to get the precision/format they want.

Views should serve those people.

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