Re: Current CVS has strange parser for float type

Works here:

test=> select 5.3::float;
float8
--------
5.3
(1 row)

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Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> wow=# select 5.3::float;
> ERROR: Bad float8 input format '5.3'
> wow=# select 5.3::float8;
> ERROR: Bad float8 input format '5.3'
> wow=# select 5.3::float4;
> ERROR: Bad float4 input format '5.3'
> wow=# select 5.3e-1::float4;
> ERROR: Bad float4 input format '0.53'
> wow=# select -5.3e-1::float4;
> ERROR: Bad float4 input format '0.53'
> wow=# select -5.3::float4;
> ERROR: Bad float4 input format '5.3'
> wow=# select 5.32222e2::float4;
> ERROR: Bad float4 input format '532.222'
> wow=# select version();
> version
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> PostgreSQL 7.3b2 on i386-unknown-freebsd4.6, compiled by GCC 2.95.3
> (1 row)
>
> Very strange or I missed something?
> This 'feature' appears only on FreeBSD, Linux works fine.
>
>
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