Seems to me that this is a view issue. In perl a NULL from the DB is typically translated to an undef. If the view needs to show it as an empty string then that should be the view's job, no other's. On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:30 AM Victor Porton <por...@narod.ru> wrote:
> For one the same object there may be several views: for example, in a > "database" view empty fields may be signified by `undef` (to denote > NULL in an SQL database) and in "UI" view they may be denoted as empty > strings. > > Is my idea: new, is it viable? Is it (or will it be?) implemented? > > Tell anything you think about this idea. >
