Thread: pgsql: doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f12
doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f1235f772497fb1d Branch ------ master Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9970443640b4569cf72b3c8e84abe80bdf533c7f Modified Files -------------- doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Re: pgsql: doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f12
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Andrew Dunstan
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On 04/22/2014 07:16 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f1235f772497fb1d > This isn't an improvement: it's made it incorrect. The null string is not necessarily empty, it is only empty by default. People keep making this mistake (and indeed, the original patch made the same mistake in its code, which I corrected), probably because specifyng anything other than the empty string is unusual. However, snice we have made provision for it not to be empty we should describe it accurately. cheers andrew
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 07:55:56PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > > > On 04/22/2014 07:16 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f1235f772497fb1d > > > > > This isn't an improvement: it's made it incorrect. The null string > is not necessarily empty, it is only empty by default. People keep > making this mistake (and indeed, the original patch made the same > mistake in its code, which I corrected), probably because specifyng > anything other than the empty string is unusual. However, snice we > have made provision for it not to be empty we should describe it > accurately. Sorry, fixed. Thanks. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. +