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Re: pg7.3.4: pg_atoi: zero-length string

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>

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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Rob Fielding <rob@dsvr.net>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-04T13:19:31Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:19:58 +0000,
  Rob Fielding <rob@dsvr.net> wrote:
> 
> I've found this is a feature of 7.3 to not treat a empty string as a 
> NULL integer type. Silly lazy me ;)

It didn't even then. It was treated as 0. Oracle is the DB that treats
empty strings as null values.