Re: Fix NULL pointer reference in _outPathTarget() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Fix NULL pointer reference in _outPathTarget()
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Msg-id 3688649.1650637080@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fix NULL pointer reference in _outPathTarget()  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On 20.04.22 18:53, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, that's another way to do it.  I think though that the unresolved
>> question is whether or not we want the field name to appear in the output
>> when the field is null.  I believe that I intentionally made it not appear
>> originally, so that that case could readily be distinguished.  You could
>> argue that that would complicate life greatly for a _readPathTarget()
>> function, which is true, but I don't foresee that we'll need one.

> We could adapt the convention to print NULL values as "<>", like

Works for me.

            regards, tom lane



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