RE: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible.

From: "Taral" <taral(at)mail(dot)utexas(dot)edu>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Steve Doliov" <statsol(at)statsol(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible.
Date: 1998-10-09 20:40:14
Message-ID: 000501bdf3c5$043aa120$3b291f0a@taral
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> How do you feel about displaying nulls as \N, as we do in the COPY
> output?

And when I put \N in a text field? How do I distinguish? We need some kind
of escaping system here... like turn '\' into '\\' and then '\N' is unique
and non-textual. :) Also allows us to output control characters, etc., in a
manner that is completely parsable.

Taral

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