| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | taral(at)mail(dot)utexas(dot)edu (Taral) |
| Cc: | statsol(at)statsol(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible. |
| Date: | 1998-10-09 21:33:30 |
| Message-ID: | 199810092133.RAA28488@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > How do you feel about displaying nulls as \N, as we do in the COPY
> > output?
>
> And when I put \N in a text field? How do I distinguish? We need some kind
> of escaping system here... like turn '\' into '\\' and then '\N' is unique
> and non-textual. :) Also allows us to output control characters, etc., in a
> manner that is completely parsable.
Yes, \ always outputs as \\, excepts someone changed it last week, and I
am requesting a reversal. Do you like the \N if it is unique?
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