On 22 March 2015 at 14:46, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 05:52:44PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > In September, while researching the to_char() buffer overflow bugs fixed
> > in 9.4.1 (commit 0150ab567bcf5e5913e2b62a1678f84cc272441f), I found an
> > inconsistency in how to_char() does zero-padding for float4/8 values.
> > Now that 9.4.1 is released and I am home for a while, I am ready to
> > address this.
> ...
> > float4/8 are padding to the internal precision, while int4/numeric are
> > padding based on the requested precision.  This is inconsistent.
> >
> > The first attached patch fixes this, and also zeros the "junk" digits
> > which exceed the precision of the underlying type:
>
> Patch applied.
>
>
This seems to have broken jacana.  Looks like MSVC by default has a 3 digit
exponent.

Going by this:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0fatw238(v=vs.80).aspx it seems
that it can quite easily be set back to 2.

I've attached a patch which seems to fix the issue.

Regards

David Rowley
diff --git a/src/backend/main/main.c b/src/backend/main/main.c
index 2f07a58..51f0884 100644
--- a/src/backend/main/main.c
+++ b/src/backend/main/main.c
@@ -262,8 +262,16 @@ startup_hacks(const char *progname)
                /* In case of general protection fault, don't show GUI popup 
box */
                SetErrorMode(SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX);
        }
+
 #endif   /* WIN32 */
 
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+
+       /* By default MSVC has a 3 digit exponent. */
+       _set_output_format(_TWO_DIGIT_EXPONENT);
+
+#endif   /* _MSC_VER */
+
        /*
         * Initialize dummy_spinlock, in case we are on a platform where we have
         * to use the fallback implementation of pg_memory_barrier().
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