Re: looking for empty fields

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From: Jodi Kanter
To: Postgres SQL List
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:07 PM
Subject: [SQL] looking for empty fields

We recently upgraded from version 7.2.3 to 7.3.3 and seem to have some code that has broken. We were doing checks in various locations looking for nulls and/or empty fields. To search for empty fields we said something like

select count(am_pk) from arraymeasurement where al_fk is null or al_fk='';

It's a string value that you're searching for?
If not, don't use ''.

Is this not allowed anymore? All my check with the double ticks are failing. I assume there is a difference in postgres between an empty and null field. How can I check for both in 7.3.3?
Thanks
Jodi

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Jodi L Kanter
BioInformatics Database Administrator
University of Virginia
(434) 924-2846
jkanter(at)virginia(dot)edu
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