| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: comparing rows |
| Date: | 2000-08-03 14:22:37 |
| Message-ID: | 200008031422.KAA19985@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Oracle allows it, and returns NULL. Oracle's fairly trustworthy
> on low-level standards compliance over things like NULL (not
> entirely, though - it treats '' as NULL in the VALUES list of
> an INSERT, though not elsewhere, for instance).
So you can't get a zero-length string into a column in Oracle.
Interesting.
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