Re: importing db as text files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: importing db as text files
Date
Msg-id 20030815002727.Q9630-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: importing db as text files  (expect <expect@ihubbell.com>)
Responses Re: importing db as text files  (expect <expect@ihubbell.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, expect wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:46:07 -0500
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> wrote:
> > Note that it isn't obvious what empty strings should map to for numbers.
> > NULL and 0 make about as much sense as using the default value.
>
> Well I'm new here but it seems to me they should map to the default value
> for that column.   Why wouldn't they?

One problem with doing that is that it's inconsistent.

Given
create table test(
 a text default 'abc',
 b int default 5
);

copy test from stdin with delimiter ',';
,
\.

What would you expect the values of the row in test
to be?


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