Re: Fwd: Copy out wording - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Fwd: Copy out wording
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Msg-id 9837222c0909030432i6b873521m7121d3f012eeb11a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Fwd: Copy out wording  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: Fwd: Copy out wording
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 13:31, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
>
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> Oh, hang on, "the NULL string" refers to the copy parameter? Not a
>> part of the data? I read it as "a string being NULL". Maybe something
>> like "the value of the NULL string parameter" to be overly clear for
>> people like me? :-)
>>
>
> We could change:
>
>   A NULL is output as the NULL string and is not quoted, while a data value
>   matching the NULL string is quoted.
>
>
> to
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>   A NULL is output as the NULL parameter and is not quoted, while a non-NULL
> data value whose text representation
>   matches the NULL parameter is quoted.
>
>
> or something similar. Would that be better?

Yes, much better IMO.

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