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RE: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible.

Taral <taral@mail.utexas.edu>

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From: "Taral" <taral@mail.utexas.edu>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Steve Doliov" <statsol@statsol.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-10-09T20:40:14Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
> How do you feel about displaying nulls as \N, as we do in the COPY
> output?

And when I put \N in a text field? How do I distinguish? We need some kind
of escaping system here... like turn '\' into '\\' and then '\N' is unique
and non-textual. :) Also allows us to output control characters, etc., in a
manner that is completely parsable.

Taral