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Started by Tom Lanealmost 24 years ago1 messagescomitters
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#1Tom Lane
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CVSROOT: /cvsroot
Module name: pgsql-server
Changes by: tgl@postgresql.org 02/10/02 15:21:26

Modified files:
src/backend/utils/adt: numeric.c
src/include/utils: numeric.h
src/test/regress/expected: aggregates.out

Log message:
Alter scale selection for NUMERIC division and transcendental functions
so that precision of result is always at least as good as you'd get from
float8 arithmetic (ie, always at least 16 digits of accuracy). Per
pg_hackers discussion a few days ago.