On 10/09/2013 01:25 PM, David Fetter wrote:
Idea: NULL FOR (foo,bar,baz,blurf) AS '""', NULL FOR (quux,fleeg) AS ...,
What's the point of this? How is this superior to what is currently proposed? Having arbitrary NULL markers for different fields will significantly increase code complexity for a case I have a hard time believing exists to any significant degree in the real world. The ONLY case I know of outside some fervid imaginations where we need to distinguish between different NULL treatment is quoted vs unquoted, which this patch rounds out. Catering for anything else seems quite unnecessary.
What is more, I think it's actually far more obscure than what is proposed, which fits in nicely with our existing pattern of options.
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