On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > On 10/09/2013 03:25 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >> Therefore, a user who wants the opposite of the default behavior - >> namely, unquoted empty strings as empty strings and quoted empty >> strings as nulls - should specify both FORCE NULL and FORCE NOT NULL. > > Is there a real world example of this case? How common is it? And how come I > haven't heard of it in the nine or so years since we've been supporting CSV > import?
I doubt there is any real world use case. My point is just that FORCE NULL and FORCE NOT NULL are not opposites, and that will probably confuse some people. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
