We had managed not to notice this simple oversight because none of our calls exercised the case --- until commit 8f427187d. That led to pg_dump crashing on any platform that uses this code (currently Cygwin and Mingw). Even though there's no immediate bug in the back branches, backpatch, because a non-POSIX-compliant strtof() substitute is trouble waiting to happen for extensions or future back-patches. Diagnosed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/339b3902-4e98-4e31-a744-94e43b7b9292@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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