Re: Null boolean values show as false in the data

From: "Ben Trewern" <ben_trewern(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Null boolean values show as false in the data
Date: 2004-10-14 13:59:05
Message-ID: BAY8-F125BOh8s4KWiG00036f81@hotmail.com
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Sorry for the noise.

Ben

>From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
>To: Ben Trewern <ben_trewern(at)hotmail(dot)com>
>CC: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
>Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Null boolean values show as false in the
>data
>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:52:17 +0000
>
>Ben Trewern wrote:
>>While your at it null values need to be treated correctly for other field
>>types.
>>
>>I don't think "" = <null> in Postgres. If so then it would be nice to be
>>able to set text/varchar to null somehow.
>
>NULL *is* handled for text. An empty field is handled as NULL, an empty
>string must be entered ''. This is documented.
>
>Regards,
>Andreas
>
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