On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> > That'd leave only Cygwin with HAVE BUGGY_STRTOF. Perhaps they have
> > fixed their implementation[1]? Here's an experimental patch to drop
> > all remnants, which could be used to find out. No Windows/Cygwin
> > here. Hmm, what if we just commit it anyway? If their strtof() is
> > still broken and someone out there is running the tests and sees this
> > test fail, why shouldn't they take that up with libc at this stage?
>
> Hmm, we could get rid of the whole resultmap mechanism ...
Yeah. I thought I'd see what blowback my
if-Cygwin-strtof()-really-is-still-broken-they-should-fix-it argument
attracted before spending the time to nuke all those lines too.
Here's that patch. We could always revert resultmap we found a new
reason to need it, but I hope we wouldn't.
