Re: BUG #1378: make check fails in float4 and float8

Rolf Jentsch wrote:
> A small test program showed that the implementation of strtod in this
> version of glibc is quite "special": 'inf' is understood but
> 'infinity' is not.
> after a call to
> strtod("infinity",&end)
> *end points to "inity", and not to the end of the input as expected.

Yes, we have seen this type of misbehavior before.  It may be time to
upgrade your operating system.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/