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

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