BUG #15141: Faulty ISO 8601 parsing

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Cc: defanor(at)uberspace(dot)net
Subject: BUG #15141: Faulty ISO 8601 parsing
Date: 2018-04-02 23:31:09
Message-ID: 152271186941.1442.12179299369295226185@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 15141
Logged by: defanor
Email address: defanor(at)uberspace(dot)net
PostgreSQL version: 10.0
Operating system: Any, apparently
Description:

The time parsing fails on some valid ISO times, with some locales, e.g.:

# select to_timestamp('2018-04-03T01:45:00,728456785+0000')::timestamp with
time zone;
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type double precision:
"2018-04-03T01:45:00,728456785+0000"
LINE 1: select to_timestamp('2018-04-03T01:45:00,728456785+0000')::t...
^

Apparently the parsing is locale-dependent (using the locale-dependent
strtod function), while ISO 8601 permits both comma and full stop, with a
preference for comma (and without mentioning locales). Would be nice to
handle both, so that any valid ISO times would get parsed.

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