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From	Peter Eisentraut
Subject	current_setting returns 'unset'
Date	January 10, 2006 10:24:27
Msg-id	200601101141.18851.peter_e@gmx.net Whole thread Raw
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The function current_setting returns 'unset' if a parameter is not set.  
Should it not return null?  This is not documented, so I guess this just 
arose out of the implementation, or is this intentional?

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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