Disallow NaN as a value for floating-point GUCs.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: f9ec64df8f25ecf69f870682abc6ff0950641610
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2019-03-10T16:58:52Z
Releases: 10.8
Disallow NaN as a value for floating-point GUCs.

None of the code that uses GUC values is really prepared for them to
hold NaN, but parse_real() didn't have any defense against accepting
such a value.  Treat it the same as a syntax error.

I haven't attempted to analyze the exact consequences of setting any
of the float GUCs to NaN, but since they're quite unlikely to be good,
this seems like a back-patchable bug fix.

Note: we don't need an explicit test for +-Infinity because those will
be rejected by existing range checks.  I added a regression test for
that in HEAD, but not older branches because the spelling of the value
in the error message will be platform-dependent in branches where we
don't always use port/snprintf.c.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1798.1552165479@sss.pgh.pa.us

Files

PathChange+/−
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c modified +4 −0
src/test/regress/expected/guc.out modified +5 −0
src/test/regress/sql/guc.sql modified +4 −0

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