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    Disallow NaN as a value for floating-point GUCs. · ac75959c
    Tom Lane authored
    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
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