Re: When is a record NULL?

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "David E(dot)Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jeff Davis" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: When is a record NULL?
Date: 2009-07-25 16:15:39
Message-ID: 4A6AE95B0200002500028D34@gw.wicourts.gov
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:

> So when it gets to that second row in the first cursor, it doesn't
> know it's a row with NULLs as opposed to an empty row.

> there ought to be an easy way to tell the difference. :-(

I would have thought that the correct thing is to check SQLSTATE for
'02000'. I can't see how PostgreSQL allows this, however. :-(

-Kevin

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