On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > >> Well, maybe. Also, giving the sort of feedback Josh seems to want >> probably would not be nearly as easy as he seems to think, ISTM. > > Oh, I don't think it would be easy. I can't think, right now, of a good > way to do it.
I mean, it wouldn't be enormously difficult to look for something of the form \d+(\.\d+)?e\d+ and give a different error message for that case, like "scientific notation is not allowed for integer inputs", but I don't think it's really worth it. A person who can't figure it out without that is probably more confused than we're going to be able to fix with a one-line error message. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
