Re: trouble caused by change in 7.3 handling of '' in

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: trouble caused by change in 7.3 handling of '' in
Date: 2002-12-18 22:51:39
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0212181550490.4488-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > That explains why my RT started acting wierd (it's in test).
> >
> > This also breaks PHPGroupware as well. (I've reported it to them).
> >
> > Is there any way to get this to be a postgresql.conf option for transition?
>
> Oh, wow, we have two now. We did discuss the problems of backward
> compatibility, but didn't think it would effect many people.
>
> Folks, what do you want to do?

Make it a GUC setting like transform_null_equals that is defaulted to
false and the dba has to turn on to enable it. Best of both worlds.

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