Re: Wider than float8

Vincenzo Romano wrote:
> Hi all.
> On most modern CPUs there are numeric representations wider than 8-bytes
> (aka float8 in PGSQL).
>
> For example, Intel/AMD CPUs have native 12-bytes floating point numbers (aka
> long double in C/C++).
>
> I understand that it could not be non-standard from a clean SQL point of view.
> Nonetheless, is there any way to use those "long doubles" in SQL?

No.  Frankly I didn't know 12-byte floats were supported in CPUs until
you posted this.  You could write your own data type to use it, of
course.

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