=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Martin_M=FCnstermann?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's even a little more bizarre: > When I start a fresh psql session, SELECT 'infinity'::float4 just works. > Then I \i sql/float4.sql, and after that > template1=# \set VERBOSITY verbose > template1=# SELECT 'infinity'::float4; > ERROR: 22P02: invalid input syntax for type real: "infinity" > LOCATION: float4in, float.c:330
Wow. Well, that confirms my suspicion that endptr is bad --- the line number shows that the complaint is coming from the junk-at-end-of-the-string test. But why is it history-dependent? I wonder if endptr might not be getting set at all in this case. Could you try adding "endptr = num;" to the code in src/backend/utils/adt/float.c, that is /* skip leading whitespace */ while (*num != '\0' && isspace((unsigned char) *num)) num++; + endptr = num; errno = 0; val = strtod(num, &endptr); /* did we not see anything that looks like a double? */ at about line 280, and similarly at line 445. Does that make it any better? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly