On Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 11:25 Marcos Pegoraro <mar...@f10.com.br> wrote:
> Em ter., 11 de mar. de 2025 às 12:52, David G. Johnston < >> david.g.johns...@gmail.com> escreveu: >> > I'm mostly indifferent and it is very simple to change. It seemed >> desirable to have the main topic of this page display as something that >> isn't invisible though. And NULL was unappealing since it naturally >> appears in data. Since COPY uses \N I figured it was a decent choice. >> <null> or <NULL> came to mind too, but there were long compared to 1, 2, >> and 4 that appear along side it. >> > > You decided to show \N for Nulls. I think that the user who has questions > about nulls is usually a newbie, so he also doesn't know the COPY format > for nulls. And even GUIs, which are often used for learning, display a word > for nulls, be it NULL, <null>, [null] or something similar. > I figured I'd wait for more bike shedding, and maybe other comments, from a committer before going though and doing another mass examples rebuild. I like my reasoning and it seems easily learned that \N means null on this page's example. But I'll go with the crowd. David J.
