Fix pg_strtof() to not crash on NULL endptr.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 1 Mar 2025 19:22:56 +0000 (14:22 -0500)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sat, 1 Mar 2025 19:22:56 +0000 (14:22 -0500)
commit00d61a08c5fadca869c66a988b722e543d8e7100
tree30460d123b334f43c5942d46c28966f90aac4910
parent56ba0463d38c17400a090353db47cf455ce01c3d
Fix pg_strtof() to not crash on NULL endptr.

We had managed not to notice this simple oversight because none
of our calls exercised the case --- until commit 8f427187d.
That led to pg_dump crashing on any platform that uses this code
(currently Cygwin and Mingw).

Even though there's no immediate bug in the back branches, backpatch,
because a non-POSIX-compliant strtof() substitute is trouble waiting
to happen for extensions or future back-patches.

Diagnosed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/339b3902-4e98-4e31-a744-94e43b7b9292@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
src/port/strtof.c