I based on the documentation of PostgreSQL
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-FLOAT)
which says about 'Infinity' and '-Infinity' and doesn't mention other possible
spellings, including 'inf'.
And on my installation of 9.2.4 'inf' doesn't work too (as I sup
I wrote:
> ... But it seems like maybe we had better cover the
> following cases that we do not cover today:
> inf
> +inf
> -inf
> +Infinity
I've committed a patch that makes sure float4in and float8in accept
these spellings even when the underlying strtod(3) function does
I wrote:
> ... further experimentation says that this doesn't work on my ancient
> HPUX box; and you're complaining about Windows. So what we've got here
> is a platform dependency in the behavior of strtod(). I don't think
> we can promise to hide all such dependencies, but maybe it'd be a good
gr...@yandex.ru writes:
> PL/Python can't convert Python's float with infinity value to PostgreSQL's
> float.
> The reason is that Python's standard representation of infinity is 'inf'
> ('Infinity' is accepted as well), but PostgreSQL's representation is
> 'Infinity' only.
Hmm, I was about to con
