Re: Document NULL

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 11:25 Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:

> Em ter., 11 de mar. de 2025 às 12:52, David G. Johnston <
>> david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> escreveu:
>>
> I'm mostly indifferent and it is very simple to change. It seemed
>> desirable to have the main topic of this page display as something that
>> isn't invisible though. And NULL was unappealing since it naturally
>> appears in data. Since COPY uses \N I figured it was a decent choice.
>> <null> or <NULL> came to mind too, but there were long compared to 1, 2,
>> and 4 that appear along side it.
>>
>
> You decided to show \N for Nulls. I think that the user who has questions
> about nulls is usually a newbie, so he also doesn't know the COPY format
> for nulls. And even GUIs, which are often used for learning, display a word
> for nulls, be it NULL, <null>, [null] or something similar.
>

I figured I'd wait for more bike shedding, and maybe other comments, from a
committer before going though and doing another mass examples rebuild. I
like my reasoning and it seems easily learned that \N means null on this
page's example. But I'll go with the crowd.

David J.