From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> |
Cc: | PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Possible to insert quoted null value into integer field? |
Date: | 2004-08-26 22:35:06 |
Message-ID: | 412E659A.4090406@Yahoo.com |
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On 8/26/2004 5:33 PM, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> 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 :-(
Who cares about Oracle? They are different things in the ANSI standard.
Jan
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