From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Gauthier, Dave" <dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: regexp on null |
Date: | 2010-09-10 19:07:25 |
Message-ID: | 20100910190725.GG9175@fetter.org |
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:25:55AM -0700, Richard Broersma wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Gauthier, Dave <dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com> wrote:
> > Ya, I kinda knew about these approaches. The problem ahs to do
> > with novice users who don't know about coalesce or or;ing a check
> > ofr nulls. I was hoping there was some special regexp expression
> > that would match to a null.
>
> Perhaps the easiest was to help such users is to make the column(s)
> in question NOT NULL DEFAULT ''.
I think it's a very, very bad idea to make a default like that. I'm
aware that it's common in one of those Oracle properties, but it needs
to stay confined there.
Cheers,
David.
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