Re: Bizarre 7.3.2 bug

--On Monday, April 21, 2003 22:44:23 -0400 Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> 
wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 22:23, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> usa=# select ''::integer;
>> ERROR:  pg_atoi: zero-length string
>
>> australia=# select ''::integer;
>> WARNING:  pg_atoi: zero-length string
>>  int4
>> ------
>>     0
>> (1 row)
>>
>> What the???
>
> Looks like the FreeBSD maintainer (you know who you are, seanc :-) ) has
> decided to be clever:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/databases/postgresql7/files/p
> atch-src%3a%3abackend%3a%3autils%3a%3aadt%3a%3anumutils.c?rev=1.1&content
> -type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
> Frankly, this is exactly the kind of modification that distributions
> should *not* be making, IMHO.
I had asked that it be ****OPTIONAL****, and Sean had ignored that request.

LER

>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
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