Hi

2015-02-09 12:22 GMT+01:00 sridhar bamandlapally <sridhar....@gmail.com>:

> Hi All
>
> We are testing our Oracle compatible business applications on PostgreSQL
> database,
>
> the issue we are facing is <empty string> Vs NULL
>
> In Oracle '' (<empty string>) and NULL are treated as NULL
>
> but, in PostgreSQL '' <empty string> not treated as NULL
>
> I need some *implicit* way in PostgreSQL where ''<empty string> can be
> treated as NULL
>

It is not possible in PostgreSQL.  PostgreSQL respects ANSI SQL standard -
Oracle not.

Regards

Pavel

p.s. theoretically you can overwrite a type operators to support Oracle
behave, but you should not be sure about unexpected negative side effects.



>
> Please,
>
> Thanks
> Sridhar BN
>
>

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