Make sure float4in/float8in accept all standard spellings of "infinity".
The C99 and POSIX standards require strtod() to accept all these spellings (case-insensitively): "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity", "+infinity", "-infinity". However, pre-C99 systems might accept only some or none of these, and apparently Windows still doesn't accept "inf". To avoid surprising cross-platform behavioral differences, manually check for each of these spellings if strtod() fails. We were previously handling just "infinity" and "-infinity" that way, but since C99 is most of the world now, it seems likely that applications are expecting all these spellings to work. Per bug #8355 from Basil Peace. It turns out this fix won't actually resolve his problem, because Python isn't being this careful; but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be. Branch ------ REL9_1_STABLE Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6084c0705ae03fa7641369e33a2c487585b8f942 Modified Files -------------- src/backend/utils/adt/float.c | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
