pgsql: Fix portability issues in datetime parsing.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix portability issues in datetime parsing.
Date: 2022-04-03 21:04:50
Message-ID: E1nb7P0-000BSa-7S@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix portability issues in datetime parsing.

datetime.c's parsing logic has assumed that strtod() will accept
a string that looks like ".", which it does in glibc, but not on
some less-common platforms such as AIX. The result of this was
that datetime fields like "123." would be accepted on some platforms
but not others; which is a sufficiently odd case that it's not that
surprising we've heard no field complaints. But commit e39f99046
extended that assumption to new places, and happened to add a test
case that exposed the platform dependency. Remove this dependency
by special-casing situations without any digits after the decimal
point.

(Again, this is in part a pre-existing bug but I don't feel a
compulsion to back-patch.)

Also, rearrange e39f99046's changes in formatting.c to avoid a
Coverity complaint that we were copying an uninitialized field.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1592893.1648969747@sss.pgh.pa.us

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/591e088dd5b357796e136c13dfcdb1f06fd7a3c2

Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c | 20 ++++---
src/test/regress/expected/interval.out | 35 +++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/interval.sql | 8 +++
4 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

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