Re: pgsql: doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f12

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f12
Date: 2014-04-22 23:55:56
Message-ID: 5357018C.7000800@dunslane.net
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On 04/22/2014 07:16 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d88a743799b0c262f1235f772497fb1d
>

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.

cheers

andrew

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