Use sprintf() to convert float8 to a string during conversion to numeric.

Original code used float8out(), but the resulting exponential notation
 was not handled (e.g. '3E9' was decoded as '3').

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c
index 9dea44a25c506a75c64926bd860b8d7066181ebd..e00e2186847993af80cb5f4ec27b4747c2184e95 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *
  *     1998 Jan Wieck
  *
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c,v 1.11 1999/03/14 16:49:32 momjian Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c,v 1.12 1999/05/04 15:50:24 thomas Exp $
  *
  * ----------
  */
@@ -1693,7 +1693,7 @@ float8_numeric(float64 val)
 {
        Numeric         res;
        NumericVar      result;
-       char            *tmp;
+       char            buf[512];
 
        if (val == NULL)
                return NULL;
@@ -1703,12 +1703,11 @@ float8_numeric(float64 val)
 
        init_var(&result);
 
-       tmp = float8out(val);
-       set_var_from_str(tmp, &result);
+       sprintf(buf, "%f", *val);
+       set_var_from_str(buf, &result);
        res = make_result(&result);
 
        free_var(&result);
-       pfree(tmp);
 
        return res;
 }