Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW, did you look at type "numeric"? Or is that okay already?
That was already okay AFAIK. I also added some regression tests to
verify that numeric accepts leading and trailing whitespace properly.
-Neil
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Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The attached patch changes the rules for input to
> int2/int4/int8/float4/float8 to consistently allow leading and
> trailing whitespace in the input.
BTW, did you look at type "numeric"? Or is that okay already?
regards, tom lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've attached a slightly revised version of the patch, which I've
> applied to CVS HEAD.
*sigh*, actually attached this time.
-Neil
Index: src/backend/utils/adt/float.c
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RCS file: /var/li
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The attached patch changes the rules for input to
> int2/int4/int8/float4/float8 to consistently allow leading and
> trailing whitespace in the input.
I've attached a slightly revised version of the patch, which I've
applied to CVS HEAD. I realized that pg
Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> By the way, this thing was discussed on irc and I just sent a mail on
> -hackers about it, not knowing about this thread here.
Yeah, let's take the discussion to -hackers using your message as a
base.
regards, tom lane
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> > nconway=# select 'Infinity'::float8;
> > ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow
>
> This works in 7.4 and older releases. Sounds to me like you broke it.
It does not work on 7.3 and 7.4 when I try.
Looking at the currect cvs code i
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> nconway=# select 'Infinity'::float8;
> ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow
> nconway=# select '-Infinity'::float8;
> ERROR: type "double precision" value out of range: overflow
> I'm inclined to just remove this attempted function
> I noticed one bug, or at least instance of bit rot: the float8 code
> attempts to parse "Infinity" and "-Infinity" specially. Unfortunately,
> this doesn't actually work:
Infinity doesn't work for float4 either.
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The attached patch changes the rules for input to
int2/int4/int8/float4/float8 to consistently allow leading and
trailing whitespace in the input. This is for conformance with the
SQL standard, as discussed in an earlier -patches thread.
I also added a bunch more regression tests for the input for
