On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote: > "Andrew Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > # SELECT to_number('12,454.8-', ''); > > pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly. > > In current sources I get a NULL result, which seems to be what the > code author intended originally. However this seems a little bit my original code not return NULL, but return numeric_in(NULL, 0, 0) for this situation. > inconsistent --- shouldn't it raise a bad-format error instead? > For example, > > regression=# SELECT to_number('12,454.8-', ' '); > ERROR: Bad numeric input format ' ' Thanks for fix Tom. Karel