Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I don't even think it was ever a feature.
It was certainly never documented as something that would work, unless
you chanced to read the one comment in numutils.c. A normal person
would not expect an empty string to be taken as a valid representation
of "zero".
> Let's see if we get any pushback. We can always downgrade it to a
> warning during beta.
I agree; tighten up and wait to see if anyone yowls.
regards, tom lane