Jan Wieck wrote:

> On 8/26/2004 4:27 AM, gnari wrote:
> 
>> "Pablo S" <pablo_tweek(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi all, I have search high and low on this -
>>> Take for instance the statement :
>>> insert into foo (text1, text2, int1) values ('Foo', 'Bar', '');
>>>
>>> On Pg 7.2.x, the db would happily insert the null val into the int
>>> field.  HOWSOMEVER, 7.4.x will explode and error back with:
> 
> 
> You aren't inserting an SQL NULL value. You try to insert an empty 
> string, which is not a valid integer representation.
> 
> 
> Jan

And IIRC for oracle an empty string is a NULL value  :-(


Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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• Re: Possible to insert quoted null value into integer field? at 2004-08-26 20:24:01 from Jan Wieck

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