Re: NaN support in NUMERIC data type

Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:51:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> IIRC, the explicit support for leading/trailing spaces is something that
>> we added in float8in long after numeric_in was written, and I think just
>> nobody thought about numeric at the time. But it's clearly inconsistent
>> to allow spaces around a regular value but not a NaN.

> The included patch was generated against 8.3.5 (because that's what I
> had lying around when I started playing) but applies with a little fuzz
> to the latest snapshot and does the right thing for me in both versions.

Hmm, did it do the right thing for NaN with a typmod? I doubt
apply_typmod is safe for a NaN. Anyway, I revised this a bit and
applied to HEAD. I'm disinclined to back-patch; it's not really a bug
but a definition change, and we get flack when we put that sort of
change into stable branches ...

regards, tom lane