Re: Question about Oracle compatibility - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pete Forman
Subject Re: Question about Oracle compatibility
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Msg-id 14883.33290.912042.461854@kryten.bedford.waii.com
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In response to Question about Oracle compatibility  (Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>)
Responses Re: Question about Oracle compatibility  (Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>)
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Mario Weilguni writes:> This gets really bad when the actual data is coming from a> webinterface, I've to handle 2
differentqueries for the case empty> string and non-empty string.
 

In their documentation both Oracle 7 and 8 state:
   Oracle currently treats a character value with a length of zero   as null.  However, this may not continue to be
truein future   releases, and Oracle recommends that you do not treat empty   strings the same as NULLs.
 

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