Re: [GENERAL] IEEE 754-2008 decimal numbers

2010-10-10 Thread Darren Duncan
Craig Ringer wrote: On 10/11/2010 04:46 AM, Thomas Munro wrote: Has anyone done any work on IEEE 754-2008 decimal types for PostgreSQL? I haven't seen any discussion. Perhaps you should ask on pgsql-hackers@ as well, as some folks who might've tried it read that list but not this one. I c

Re: [GENERAL] IEEE 754-2008 decimal numbers

2010-10-10 Thread Craig Ringer
On 10/11/2010 04:46 AM, Thomas Munro wrote: Has anyone done any work on IEEE 754-2008 decimal types for PostgreSQL? I haven't seen any discussion. Perhaps you should ask on pgsql-hackers@ as well, as some folks who might've tried it read that list but not this one. I couldn't find anythin

[GENERAL] IEEE 754-2008 decimal numbers

2010-10-10 Thread Thomas Munro
Hi Has anyone done any work on IEEE 754-2008 decimal types for PostgreSQL? I couldn't find anything, so I was thinking it might be a fun exercise for learning about extending PostgreSQL with user defined types. My first goal is to be able to store decimal numbers with a smaller disk footprint th