DBD::Pg (version 3.16.3) returns EMPTY char columns as 'undef'

Hello,

We're using the above DBD::Pg version on Linux together with PostgreSQL 15.1
On fetch empty char columns are returned as (Perl) 'undef'

while ( my @row_ary = $dba->FetchArray()) {
foreach my $i (0..$#row_ary) {
if ($row_ary[$i] eq undef) {
print $row_ary[1] . "\n";
next;
}
...
which later leads in our code to NULL values '\N' in the writing of a CSV-like export
files. Ofc NULL values in the database are something else as '' char
strings.

How this must be distinguished with DBD::Pg?

Thanks

matthias

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