Re: pgsql-server/src backend/utils/adt/numutils.c ...

Neil Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Well, not really.  It is more of a tightening up, where '' is not
> > really zero, it is ''.
>
> Sure, but "tightening up" is just another way to say "backward
> incompatible change". I'd agree this is a change we should make, I'm
> just not convinced that it's worth the backward compatibility hit.
>
> What if we just added an elog(WARNING) that said "Zero-length integer
> conversion is deprecated and will be removed in the near future", and
> then fixed this properly in 7.4? I usually dislike adding warnings,
> but I don't think that noting in the documentation that this feature
> is deprecated is sufficient in this case: information on this kind of
> behavior is nearly impossible to find in the docs.

I don't even think it was ever a feature.  We are changing COPY's
handling of missing trailing fields, so this will fit right in.  I
assume that will be the place it hits most.

Let's see if we get any pushback. We can always downgrade it to a
warning during beta.

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