Re: remove floats from bootstrap scanner/parser

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: remove floats from bootstrap scanner/parser
Date: 2017-01-12 19:52:29
Message-ID: cd980b0f-a273-30b5-2566-df55cc68e6a2@BlueTreble.com
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On 1/9/17 9:11 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I happened to notice that we have dead code to parse floating point
> numbers in the boostrap scanner/parser. This seems unused since forever
> -- or, more precisely, I couldn't find any floats in 8.2's postgres.bki
> (the oldest I have around). I would just rip it out, per the attached.

Verified this works for make check. Looks sane to me.
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