Current CVS has strange parser for float type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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,
compiledby GCC 2.95.3
 
(1 row)

Very strange or I missed something?
This 'feature' appears only on FreeBSD, Linux works fine.


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Teodor Sigaev
teodor@stack.net