pgsql: CVS NULL Documentation Clearify documentation of CVS's output of
Log Message:
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CVS NULL Documentation
Clearify documentation of CVS's output of NULL values, per suggestion
from Magnus.
Backpatch to 8.4.X.
Modified Files:
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pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref:
copy.sgml (r1.87 -> r1.88)
(http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml?r1=1.87&r2=1.88)
momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
Log Message:
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CVS NULL Documentation
Clearify documentation of CVS's output of NULL values, per suggestion
from Magnus.
This has not "clarified" anything; what it has done is transformed
correct statements into incorrect ones. You forgot about the
possibility that the copy is using a nonempty string as the "null
string". Kindly revert.
regards, tom lane
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
Log Message:
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CVS NULL DocumentationClearify documentation of CVS's output of NULL values, per suggestion
from Magnus.This has not "clarified" anything; what it has done is transformed
correct statements into incorrect ones. You forgot about the
possibility that the copy is using a nonempty string as the "null
string". Kindly revert.
Also, the format is called CSV, not CVS.
...Robert
Tom Lane wrote:
momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
Log Message:
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CVS NULL DocumentationClearify documentation of CVS's output of NULL values, per suggestion
from Magnus.This has not "clarified" anything; what it has done is transformed
correct statements into incorrect ones. You forgot about the
possibility that the copy is using a nonempty string as the "null
string". Kindly revert.
It has been adjusted per Andrew's suggestion.
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