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seg.sgml claims that a seg can store 7 significant digits, but this
is nonsense. The underlying float4 data type is not (quite) that
precise, and seg_out() intentionally rounds off to at most FLT_DIG
decimal places. With IEEE float arithmetic, FLT_DIG will be defined
as 6, or at least that's the case on all platforms I know of.
AFAICT this thinko goes clear back to the introduction of seg
(commit a3694b420), but it wasn't questioned until now.
Bug: #19744
Reported-by: Ke <kehan5800@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19744-8c700582bbb1d075@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
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