On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:52:17PM +0100, Helga Velroyen wrote:
> When displaying query results of type Maybe, one could use the
> function rsMaybe. Unfortunately, this function maps 'Nothing'
> values to RSNoData which gets displayed as '?' in the list of
> query results. These semantics do not fit if the result is of
> a Maybe type, because it is an optional field, because in this
> case 'Nothing' is not an error (like for example the consequence
> of an RPC error), but a legitimate result and as such should
> be displayed as '-' in the result list. For this purpose,
> this patch introduces another version of rsMaybe, which is
> called rsMaybeUnavail to be used for optional fields.

LGTM, maybe we should rename the existing rsMaybe to rsMaybeNoData for
consistency?

iustin

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