Re: Inconsistent display of NULL and empty string values

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: rod(at)iol(dot)ie
Cc: Arkadiusz Piekarz <piekarzarkadiusz(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inconsistent display of NULL and empty string values
Date: 2012-11-25 10:25:07
Message-ID: 1353839107.2052.3.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:03 +0100, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 08/10/2012 17:55, Arkadiusz Piekarz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a usability problem with pgAdmin, namely it displays certain
> > values in different ways depending on a part of the application.
> > Here is a screenshot of the problem: http://i.imgur.com/xrEYt.jpg
> >
> > NULL values are shown as <NULL> in the query editor, but as empty
> > cells in the data editor.
> > Empty strings are shown as empty cells in the query editor, but they
> > are double apostrophes in the data one.
> >
> > This issue makes it hard to check data in the tables, because you
> > constantly have to remind yourself how the data is represented in each
> > view.
>
> +1 to the above - if it's possible, I'd also like to see consistency
> across all of PgAdmin on the display of nulls in particular.
>

Seems fair. I added a ticket to remember to work on this later.

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Guillaume
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