Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 12/17/10 3:34 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> Oh, *I* understand the difference.  Any app developer is going to see it
>> as stupidly arbitrary, though.
> 
> Speaking as someone who spent 9 years doing app development, I dispute
> the word "any".

Ok, "lots" then.  If it's not a good idea to enable that functionality,
then it would be nice to come up with some way to make it more clear why
it's failing.

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