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diff --git a/doc/TODO.detail/null b/doc/TODO.detail/null deleted file mode 100644 index 7ac282c972a..00000000000 --- a/doc/TODO.detail/null +++ /dev/null @@ -1,119 +0,0 @@ -From owner-pgsql-general@hub.org Fri Oct 9 18:22:09 1998 -Received: from hub.org (majordom@hub.org [209.47.148.200]) - by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA04220 - for <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:22:08 -0400 (EDT) -Received: from localhost (majordom@localhost) - by hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA26960; - Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:18:29 -0400 (EDT) - (envelope-from owner-pgsql-general@hub.org) -Received: by hub.org (TLB v0.10a (1.23 tibbs 1997/01/09 00:29:32)); Fri, 09 Oct 1998 18:18:07 +0000 (EDT) -Received: (from majordom@localhost) - by hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26917 - for pgsql-general-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:18:04 -0400 (EDT) - (envelope-from owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org) -X-Authentication-Warning: hub.org: majordom set sender to owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org using -f -Received: from gecko.statsol.com (gecko.statsol.com [198.11.51.133]) - by hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26904 - for <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:17:46 -0400 (EDT) - (envelope-from statsol@statsol.com) -Received: from gecko (gecko [198.11.51.133]) - by gecko.statsol.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id SAA00557 - for <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:18:00 -0400 (EDT) -Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:18:00 -0400 (EDT) -From: Steve Doliov <statsol@statsol.com> -X-Sender: statsol@gecko -To: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org -Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible. -Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981009181716.545B-100000@gecko> -MIME-Version: 1.0 -Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -Sender: owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org -Precedence: bulk -Status: RO - -On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote: - -> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] -> > > Yes, \ always outputs as \\, excepts someone changed it last week, and I -> > > am requesting a reversal. Do you like the \N if it is unique? -> > -> > Well, it's certainly clear, but could be confused with \n (newline). Can we -> > have \0 instead? -> -> Yes, but it is uppercase. \0 looks like an octal number to me, and I -> think we even output octals sometimes, don't we? -> - -my first suggestion may have been hare-brained, but why not just make the -specifics of the output user-configurable. So if the user chooses \0, so -be it, if the user chooses \N so be it, if the user likes NULL so be it. -but the option would only have one value per database at any given point -in time. so database x could use \N on tuesday and NULL on wednesday, but -database x could never have two references to the characters(s) used to -represent a null value. - -steve - - - - -From owner-pgsql-general@hub.org Sun Oct 11 17:31:08 1998 -Received: from renoir.op.net (root@renoir.op.net [209.152.193.4]) - by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA20043 - for <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:31:02 -0400 (EDT) -Received: from hub.org (majordom@hub.org [209.47.148.200]) by renoir.op.net (o1/$ Revision: 1.18 $) with ESMTP id RAA03069 for <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:10:34 -0400 (EDT) -Received: from localhost (majordom@localhost) - by hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA10856; - Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:57:34 -0400 (EDT) - (envelope-from owner-pgsql-general@hub.org) -Received: by hub.org (TLB v0.10a (1.23 tibbs 1997/01/09 00:29:32)); Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:53:35 +0000 (EDT) -Received: (from majordom@localhost) - by hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA10393 - for pgsql-general-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:53:34 -0400 (EDT) - (envelope-from owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org) -X-Authentication-Warning: hub.org: majordom set sender to owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org using -f -Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.0.212]) - by hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10378 - for <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:53:28 -0400 (EDT) - (envelope-from tomg@admin.nrnet.org) -Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (root@mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) - by mail1.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id QAA16311 - for <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:53:24 -0400 (EDT) -Received: from admin.nrnet.org (uucp@localhost) - by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with UUCP - id QAA16345 for pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:28:47 -0400 -Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) - by admin.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA11569 - for <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:28:41 -0400 -Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 16:28:41 -0400 (EDT) -From: Thomas Good <tomg@admin.nrnet.org> -To: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org -Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible. -In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981009181716.545B-100000@gecko> -Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981011161908.11556A-100000@admin.nrnet.org> -MIME-Version: 1.0 -Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -Sender: owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org -Precedence: bulk -Status: RO - -Watching all this go by...as a guy who has to move alot of data -from legacy dbs to postgres, I've gotten used to \N being a null. - -My vote, if I were allowed to cast one, would be to have one null -and that would be the COPY command null. I have no difficulty -distinguishing a null from a newline... - -At the pgsql command prompt I would find seeing \N rather reassuring. -I've seen alot of these little guys. - - ---------- Sisters of Charity Medical Center ---------- - Department of Psychiatry - ---- - Thomas Good <tomg@q8.nrnet.org> - Coordinator, North Richmond C.M.H.C. Information Systems - 75 Vanderbilt Ave, Quarters 8 Phone: 718-354-5528 - Staten Island, NY 10304 Fax: 718-354-5056 - - - |