Re: x = NULL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: x = NULL
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0109181953340.680-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to x = NULL  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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I'm getting tired of this, so unless someone can present a reason not to,
I'll implement a GUC parameter to turn this off -- and turn it off by
default.

I wrote:

> The x = NULL hack keeps biting people.  Innocent people should not be
> exposed to incorrect behaviour because of (supposed) MS Access breakage.
> I strongly urge that we do one of the following:
>
> 1) Provide a tunable knob to turn this on (cf. KSQO)
>
> 2) Confine this to the ODBC driver somehow (which could be done via #1)
>
> Actually, last time we discussed this there was some confusion whether
> Access actually had the bug in question.  That might be worth figuring
> out.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter



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