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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2013-08-03 12:40:01 -0400 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2013-08-03 12:40:49 -0400 |
commit | 32b5a969e9f83866b2b1538e92bd6f1447ec6ac6 (patch) | |
tree | 5f2048d99afbf39eaefa6738baa07afb0b735d4f /src/backend/tcop/postgres.c | |
parent | 646b12115a81604fe083d555441d50c8967cee5f (diff) | |
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Make sure float4in/float8in accept all standard spellings of "infinity".
The C99 and POSIX standards require strtod() to accept all these spellings
(case-insensitively): "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity", "+infinity",
"-infinity". However, pre-C99 systems might accept only some or none of
these, and apparently Windows still doesn't accept "inf". To avoid
surprising cross-platform behavioral differences, manually check for each
of these spellings if strtod() fails. We were previously handling just
"infinity" and "-infinity" that way, but since C99 is most of the world
now, it seems likely that applications are expecting all these spellings
to work.
Per bug #8355 from Basil Peace. It turns out this fix won't actually
resolve his problem, because Python isn't being this careful; but that
doesn't mean we shouldn't be.
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