Re: [GENERAL] Orafce concat operator

2010-02-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
2010/2/10 Yeb Havinga : > Pavel Stehule wrote: >>> >>> What about adding something like operator ||| in the orafce package for >>> concat? >>> >> >> no, it could be confusing and it isn't enough, because it isn't only >> || or concat problem. On Oracle empty string is equal to NULL and NULL >> is e

Re: [GENERAL] Orafce concat operator

2010-02-10 Thread Yeb Havinga
Pavel Stehule wrote: What about adding something like operator ||| in the orafce package for concat? no, it could be confusing and it isn't enough, because it isn't only || or concat problem. On Oracle empty string is equal to NULL and NULL is equal to empty string. example: '' is null, l

Re: [GENERAL] Orafce concat operator

2010-02-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
2010/2/10 Yeb Havinga : > Hello list, > > The Orafce compatibility package doesn't seem to have operators defined > (looked in the sql load file). The function I'm specifically interested in, > is Oracle's concatenation that regards a NULL as the empty string and hence > returns 'the other value'.

[GENERAL] Orafce concat operator

2010-02-10 Thread Yeb Havinga
Hello list, The Orafce compatibility package doesn't seem to have operators defined (looked in the sql load file). The function I'm specifically interested in, is Oracle's concatenation that regards a NULL as the empty string and hence returns 'the other value'. This in contrast with Pg's || t