Sorry, I've been working through the backlog of three weeks of traveling. > > I tried some tests with ecpg informix mode. > > When trying to store float data into a integer var, I got endless > > loop. > > > > The reason is: > > In informix mode, ecpg can accept > > string form of float number when processing query result. > > During checking the string form of float number, it seems > > that ecpg forgot to skip characters after '.'. > > Then outer loop will never stop because it hopes to see '\0'. > > > > The first patch will reproduce the problem in ecpg's regress test. > > The second patch tries to fix it in simple way.
Thanks for spotting and fixing. I changed your patch slightly and made it check if the rest of the data is indeed digits, or else it would accept something like "7.hello" as "7".
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