Re: Bug #432: Macaddr accepts empty string

Not any more:

test=> create table pp (x macaddr);
CREATE
test=> insert into pp values ('');
ERROR: macaddr_in: error in parsing ""

> Daniel Mantione (daniel(at)deadlock(dot)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl) reports a bug with a severity of 3
> The lower the number the more severe it is.
>
> Short Description
> Macaddr accepts empty string
>
> Long Description
> Hello,
>
> The datatype macaddr accepts empty strings as data. I think this is not correct; an empty string is no valid mac address.
>
> It should accept NULL (which it does).
>
> Greetings,
>
> Daniel Mantione
>
> Sample Code
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