Re: Possible to insert quoted null value into integer field?

On 8/26/2004 5:33 PM, Gaetano Mendola wrote:

> Jan Wieck wrote:
>
>> On 8/26/2004 4:27 AM, gnari wrote:
>>
>>> "Pablo S" <pablo_tweek@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all, I have search high and low on this -
>>>> Take for instance the statement :
>>>> insert into foo (text1, text2, int1) values ('Foo', 'Bar', '');
>>>>
>>>> On Pg 7.2.x, the db would happily insert the null val into the int
>>>> field.  HOWSOMEVER, 7.4.x will explode and error back with:
>>
>>
>> You aren't inserting an SQL NULL value. You try to insert an empty
>> string, which is not a valid integer representation.
>>
>>
>> Jan
>
> And IIRC for oracle an empty string is a NULL value  :-(

Who cares about Oracle? They are different things in the ANSI standard.


Jan

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