| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers? |
| Date: | 2010-12-18 02:03:49 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTinyi4NcR5Xz2TF_XAefsDO8V3p+n1jxbSOb6mue@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Well, maybe. Also, giving the sort of feedback Josh seems to want
>> probably would not be nearly as easy as he seems to think, ISTM.
>
> Oh, I don't think it would be easy. I can't think, right now, of a good
> way to do it.
I mean, it wouldn't be enormously difficult to look for something of
the form \d+(\.\d+)?e\d+ and give a different error message for that
case, like "scientific notation is not allowed for integer inputs",
but I don't think it's really worth it. A person who can't figure it
out without that is probably more confused than we're going to be able
to fix with a one-line error message.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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