MINOR: stats: support an optional "float" option to "show info"
This will allow some fields to be produced with a higher accuracy when
the requester indicates being able to parse floats. Rates and times are
among the elements which can make sense.
diff --git a/doc/management.txt b/doc/management.txt
index 0a69cbd..75e872b 100644
--- a/doc/management.txt
+++ b/doc/management.txt
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@
suffixed with an exclamation mark ('!'). This may help find a starting point
when trying to diagnose an incident.
-show info [typed|json] [desc]
+show info [typed|json] [desc] [float]
Dump info about haproxy status on current process. If "typed" is passed as an
optional argument, field numbers, names and types are emitted as well so that
external monitoring products can easily retrieve, possibly aggregate, then
@@ -2306,7 +2306,11 @@
delimited by a colon (':'). The left one is the field name and the right
one is the value. It is very important to note that in typed output
format, the dump for a single object is contiguous so that there is no
- need for a consumer to store everything at once.
+ need for a consumer to store everything at once. If "float" is passed as an
+ optional argument, some fields usually emitted as integers may switch to
+ floats for higher accuracy. It is purposely unspecified which ones are
+ concerned as this might evolve over time. Using this option implies that the
+ consumer is able to process floats. The output format used is sprintf("%f").
When using the typed output format, each line is made of 4 columns delimited
by colons (':'). The first column is a dot-delimited series of 3 elements. The