This should also definitely be in the release notes as a warning...
Chris
Neil Conway wrote:
> CVSROOT: /cvsroot
> Module name: pgsql-server
> Changes by: neilc@svr1.postgresql.org 04/03/04 17:47:18
>
> Modified files:
> doc/src/sgml : errcodes.sgml
> src/backend/utils/adt: float.c oid.c
> src/include/utils: errcodes.h
> src/test/regress/expected: oid.out
> src/test/regress/sql: oid.sql
>
> Log message:
> Emit a warning when an empty string is input to the oid, float4, and
> float8 types. This begins the deprecation of this feature: in 7.6,
> this input will be rejected.
>
> Also added a new error code for warnings about deprecated features,
> and updated the regression tests.
>
>
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