Re: Fwd: int type problem in 7.3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mario Weilguni
Subject Re: Fwd: int type problem in 7.3
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Msg-id 4D618F6493CE064A844A5D496733D6670390FE@freedom.icomedias.com
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In response to Fwd: int type problem in 7.3  (Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>)
Responses Re: Fwd: int type problem in 7.3  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
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>> But oracle accepts this one:
>> SQL> select * from re_eintraege where id='';
>> no rows selected
>> because oracle treats the empty string as NULL
>
>Oracle does that for string data, but it doesn't do it for numerics
>does it?  In any case, that behavior is surely non-compliant with
>the SQL spec.

No, oracle accepts this and works correctly with number() datatype.
However I did not know that in postgres '' was treated as '0'.

Regards,Mario Weilguni




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