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