Re: [GENERAL] Making NULLs visible.
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: taral@mail.utexas.edu (Taral)
Cc: statsol@statsol.com, pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-10-09T21:33:30Z
Lists: pgsql-general
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > 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. Yes, \ always outputs as \\, excepts someone changed it last week, and I am requesting a reversal. Do you like the \N if it is unique? -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026