Re: BUG: pgAdmin III View table with empty strings

Donald Fraser wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
>To: "Matej Rizman" <matej.rizman@guest.arnes.si>;
><pgadmin-support@postgresql.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] BUG: pgAdmin III View table with empty strings
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Matej Rizman [mailto:matej.rizman@guest.arnes.si]
>>>Sent: 16 July 2003 00:34
>>>To: pgadmin-support@postgresql.org
>>>Subject: [pgadmin-support] BUG: pgAdmin III View table with
>>>empty strings
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>>>Version: 0.8.0 (Jul 14 2003), Win32 version
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>>>Steps:
>>>1) create table with one varchar column
>>>CREATE TABLE public.test
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>>>  a varchar(50) NOT NULL
>>>) WITHOUT OIDS;
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>>>2) fill it with some empty strings
>>>INSERT INTO test(a) VALUES('')
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>>>3) run pgAdmin III, select table and choose view data from popup menu
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>>>4) pgAdmin III shows two apostrophes ('') instead of empty strings.
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>>Hi,
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>>That is by design and is described in the new docs/en_US/editgrid.html
>>file. The two single quotes represents empty string, whereas an empty
>>box represents NULL.
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>Might I add my 2 cents worth:
>If you have a string type column with a value of lets say two or more spaces
>e.g. '   '::text, you cannot see the difference between that and a column that
>returns NULL.
>May be in this day and age of GUIs, a different colour might help?
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Yes, it's going on the wishlist for V2.

Regards,
Andreas