On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Bill Moran <wmo...@potentialtech.com> wrote: > In response to Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > >> Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: >> > postgres=# select '1e+01'::Integer >> > postgres-# ; >> > ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "1e+01" >> >> I have never heard of any programming system anywhere that accepts such >> a syntax for integers (assuming it distinguishes integers from other >> numbers at all). I'm not excited about being the first. Why does this >> error surprise you? It doesn't seem particularly different from arguing >> that 1.000 should be considered an integer, which strikes me as a >> seriously bad idea. > > But > SELECT 1.000::Integer; > works. And so does > SELECT 1.234::Integer;
And so does: SELECT 1.23e+01::Integer > which I find just as dangerous as > SELECT '1.234e+01'::Integer; Add quotes to either of the other two, and then they don't work either. Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
