Re: [HACKERS] 7.3 -> pg_atoi: zero-length string

If we had received more complaints about the change during beta, we
would have added a mention that the change would be in 7.4. As we got
few complaints, the change went into 7.3, and it is mentioned in the
porting section of the release notes (last item):

* An empty string ('') is no longer allowed as the input into an
integer field. Formerly, it was silently interpreted as 0.

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Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
>
> --On Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:21:04 -0500 Bruce Momjian
> <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> >> Then Why not set it to NULL
> >
> > Well, it is not NULL, though, it is ''. They are not the same in
> > strings (though for some dbms's they are), so I don't see why we would
> > do that for numerics.
> >
> >> Seems logic as there is nothing between ''
> >>
> >> What is the solution of other dbs ( oracle, db2 .. ) to:
> >> insert into table (num) value (''); ?
> >
> > I assume they would fail too.
> >
> >> Who knows how many application will suffer becouse of this.
> >
> > Yours is the first, or perhaps second to bring up this issue.
> > I am sure it is a pain, but it does tighten up some cases where we were
> > silently mapping '' to 0, and we don't exactly have a flood of problem
> > reports.
> He's at least the 2nd. I have one, that I've complained to the
> PHPGroupware folks (which
> BREAKS severely with this change).
>
> LER
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