| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f12 |
| Date: | 2014-04-23 00:33:04 |
| Message-ID: | 20140423003304.GN10046@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 07:55:56PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 04/22/2014 07:16 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f1235f772497fb1d
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> This isn't an improvement: it's made it incorrect. The null string
> is not necessarily empty, it is only empty by default. People keep
> making this mistake (and indeed, the original patch made the same
> mistake in its code, which I corrected), probably because specifyng
> anything other than the empty string is unusual. However, snice we
> have made provision for it not to be empty we should describe it
> accurately.
Sorry, fixed. Thanks.
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