Re: Ryu floating point output patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Ryu floating point output patch
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Msg-id 20181214185301.2z5prubjnfdqqdml@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Ryu floating point output patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

On 2018-12-14 13:47:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > It's been absorbed into MSVC's standard library and a bunch of other
> > projects, so there's certainly some other prominent adoption.
> 
> If we think that's going on, maybe we should just sit tight till glibc
> absorbs it.

All the stuff it'll have to put above it will make it slower
anyway. It's not like this'll be a feature that's hard to rip out if all
libc's have fast roundtrip safe conversion routines, or if something
better comes along.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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