On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:16:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Sam Mason s...@samason.me.uk writes:
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:11:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Anyway, I revised this a bit and applied to HEAD.
I've not tested; but your changes look as though they will break:
SELECT
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:51:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Sam Mason s...@samason.me.uk writes:
SELECT 'NaN'::float8;
SELECT ' NaN'::float8;
SELECT 'NaN '::float8;
SELECT '+NaN'::float8;
SELECT '-NaN'::float8;
Well, the +- part must be an artifact of your strtod()
Sam Mason s...@samason.me.uk writes:
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:51:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
IIRC, the explicit support for leading/trailing spaces is something that
we added in float8in long after numeric_in was written, and I think just
nobody thought about numeric at the time. But it's
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:11:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Sam Mason s...@samason.me.uk writes:
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:51:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
IIRC, the explicit support for leading/trailing spaces is something that
we added in float8in long after numeric_in was written, and I
Sam Mason s...@samason.me.uk writes:
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:11:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Anyway, I revised this a bit and applied to HEAD.
I've not tested; but your changes look as though they will break:
SELECT 'Infinity'::float::numeric;
That gives an error now, just as it did
Sam Mason s...@samason.me.uk writes:
I've just noticed that the NUMERIC input function special cases NaN
values differently to the floating point input functions. For example
the following are all accepted (on my system anyway):
SELECT 'NaN'::float8;
SELECT ' NaN'::float8;
SELECT
