[BUGS] pg_dump and psql disagree on numerical precision (powerpc)

2003-11-14 Thread Christof Petig
I didn't believe it at first: create table test ( x double precision); insert into test values (0.3); test=# select * from test; x - 0.3 -- -- Data for TOC entry 3 (OID 53248) -- Name: test; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: public; Owner: christof -- COPY test (x) FROM stdin; 0.2

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump and psql disagree on numerical precision (powerpc)

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Lane
Christof Petig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > COPY test (x) FROM stdin; > 0.2 > \. This is not a bug; it's pg_dump trying to recreate the actual floating point value as accurately as it can. See the discussion of extra_float_digits from six months or a year back.

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump and psql disagree on numerical precision (powerpc)

2003-11-14 Thread Christof Petig
Tom Lane schrieb: Christof Petig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: COPY test (x) FROM stdin; 0.2 \. This is not a bug; it's pg_dump trying to recreate the actual floating point value as accurately as it can. See the discussion of extra_float_digits from six months or a year back. Oh,

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump and psql disagree on numerical precision (powerpc)

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Lane
Christof Petig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Commenting out "set extra_float_digits=2" in pg_dump.c gives me the old > behaviour. Is it only me wishing for a command line parameter for > pg_dump to set desired precision? It seems to me that you should be using type NUMERIC if you think there is

Re: [BUGS] pg_dump and psql disagree on numerical precision (powerpc)

2003-11-14 Thread Christof Petig
Tom Lane schrieb: Christof Petig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Commenting out "set extra_float_digits=2" in pg_dump.c gives me the old behaviour. Is it only me wishing for a command line parameter for pg_dump to set desired precision? It seems to me that you should be using type NUMERIC if you t

[BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-14 Thread Theodore Petrosky
This is the initdb.log for my OS X 10.3.1 system. the install was made with. ./configure make make check. Ted Running in noclean mode. Mistakes will not be cleaned up. The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process. Th

Re: [BUGS] RC2 will not make check on OSX 10.3

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Lane
Theodore Petrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot > allocate memory > DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, > size=1081344, 03600). You need to increase SHMMAX. regards, tom lane ---(end