Re: Current CVS has strange parser for float type

Works here:test=> select 5.3::float; float8 --------    5.3(1 row)

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Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> wow=# select 5.3::float;
> ERROR:  Bad float8 input format '5.3'
> wow=# select 5.3::float8;
> ERROR:  Bad float8 input format '5.3'
> wow=# select 5.3::float4;
> ERROR:  Bad float4 input format '5.3'
> wow=# select 5.3e-1::float4;
> ERROR:  Bad float4 input format '0.53'
> wow=# select -5.3e-1::float4;
> ERROR:  Bad float4 input format '0.53'
> wow=# select -5.3::float4;
> ERROR:  Bad float4 input format '5.3'
> wow=# select 5.32222e2::float4;
> ERROR:  Bad float4 input format '532.222'
> wow=# select version();
>                                 version
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>   PostgreSQL 7.3b2 on i386-unknown-freebsd4.6, compiled by GCC 2.95.3
> (1 row)
> 
> Very strange or I missed something?
> This 'feature' appears only on FreeBSD, Linux works fine.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Teodor Sigaev
> teodor@stack.net
> 
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