Re: [HACKERS] remove floats from bootstrap scanner/parser

2017-01-12 Thread Jim Nasby
On 1/9/17 9:11 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: I happened to notice that we have dead code to parse floating point numbers in the boostrap scanner/parser. This seems unused since forever -- or, more precisely, I couldn't find any floats in 8.2's postgres.bki (the oldest I have around). I would just r

[HACKERS] remove floats from bootstrap scanner/parser

2017-01-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
I happened to notice that we have dead code to parse floating point numbers in the boostrap scanner/parser. This seems unused since forever -- or, more precisely, I couldn't find any floats in 8.2's postgres.bki (the oldest I have around). I would just rip it out, per the attached. -- Álvaro He