Re: BUG - does not handle empty strings properly - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Dave Page
Subject Re: BUG - does not handle empty strings properly
Date
Msg-id 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B866C8@salem.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to BUG - does not handle empty strings properly  ("Armbrust, Daniel C." <Armbrust.Daniel@mayo.edu>)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armbrust, Daniel C. [mailto:Armbrust.Daniel@mayo.edu]
> Sent: 13 August 2002 22:44
> To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support] BUG - does not handle empty
> strings properly
>
>
> Database Migration Wizard Plugin for pgAdmin II 1.2.0 does
> not properly handle empty strings from an MS Access Database.
>
> When processing a column with a data type of Text, which is
> required but allows 0 length fields, and it encounters an
> empty string "", instead of passing the value as "", it just
> leaves out that column, which causes the database to try to
> set it to NULL, but NULL is not a legal value for the column.
>

I have updated the current dev code to try to overcome this. Can you try
the snapshot please? If you go to http://cvs.pgadmin.org/, download the
tarball from the binaries folder and install according to the
instructions in the readme.

Regards, Dave.

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