Re: it's not NULL, then what is it?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Tena Sakai" <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu>
Cc: "Rob Sargent" <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: it's not NULL, then what is it?
Date: 2009-07-01 17:42:27
Message-ID: 13653.1246470147@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Tena Sakai" <tsakai(at)gallo(dot)ucsf(dot)edu> writes:
>> So they were null,

> Yes!

>> and null turns out to be a seven-character blank string!?

> I don't understand how that happens. Mr Tom Lane
> hinted that it might be a bug in sprintf...

Well, that was before I read the messages where it turned out that they
were actually nulls after all.

regards, tom lane

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