Piotr Stefaniak <postg...@piotr-stefaniak.me> writes:
> I've been meaning to update my patch like this, but didn't want to 
> bother you before trying to find more issues with formatting.c (still 
> haven't found the time for that, sadly):

> -       if (*Np->inout_p == ' ')
> +       while (!OVERLOAD_TEST && isspace((unsigned char) *Np->inout_p))
>                  Np->inout_p++;

Meh.  I agree that replacing the "== ' '" test with isspace() would be
an improvement, since that seems to be the way it's done elsewhere in
formatting.c.  But changing this into a loop, so that it's willing to
consume any amount of whitespace, is a nontrivial change in the
specification of to_number().  I'm not at all sure it's a good idea;
IMO the point of to_number() is to parse numbers according to a fairly
tightly controlled format.

I'd even argue that unconditionally consuming a single space is the wrong
thing here.  Rather, I think what this is meant to be doing is treating a
space as one of the possible alternatives for a sign character, and so
instead of this what the code ought to be is an alternative on the same
footing as '+' or '-', a few lines down:

                        else if (*Np->inout_p == '+')
                        {
                                *Np->number = '+';              /* set + */
                                Np->inout_p++;
                        }
+                       else if (isspace((unsigned char) *Np->inout_p))
+                       {
+                               *Np->number = '+';              /* set + */
+                               Np->inout_p++;
+                       }
                }
        }


                        regards, tom lane


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