Re: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible.
Date
Msg-id 199810092142.RAA28738@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to RE: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible.  ("Taral" <taral@mail.utexas.edu>)
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> > Yes, \ always outputs as \\, excepts someone changed it last week, and I
> > am requesting a reversal.  Do you like the \N if it is unique?
>
> Well, it's certainly clear, but could be confused with \n (newline). Can we
> have \0 instead?

Yes, but it is uppercase.  \0 looks like an octal number to me, and I
think we even output octals sometimes, don't we?

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