Type: integer
Default: 0
Min: -15
Max: 3
Context: user
Restart: false

This parameter adjusts the number of digits displayed for floating-point values, including float4, float8, and geometric data types. The parameter value is added to the standard number of digits (FLT_DIG or DBL_DIG as appropriate). The value can be set as high as 3, to include partially-significant digits; this is especially useful for dumping float data that needs to be restored exactly. Or it can be set negative to suppress unwanted digits. See also datatype-float.

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Only significant for applications which do a lot of float calculations, like scientific databases.

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