On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/09/2013 11:47 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
One of the advantage, I could see using NULL For .. syntax is
that already we have one
On 10/09/2013 11:47 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
One of the advantage, I could see using NULL For .. syntax is
that already we have one syntax with which user can specify what
strings can be replaced with NULL, now just to handle quoted empty
string why to add different syntax.
FORCE_NULL has
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/09/2013 11:47 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
One of the advantage, I could see using NULL For .. syntax is
that already we have one syntax with which user can specify what
strings can be replaced with NULL, now
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/07/2013 11:34 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net
wrote:
On 10/07/2013 03:06 PM,
On 10/09/2013 09:22 AM, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/07/2013 11:34 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes:
I don't see at all that your suggested alternative has any advantages over
what's been written. If you can say NULL FOR (foo) as '' how will you
specify the null for some other column(s)? Are we going to have multiple
such clauses? It looks like a
On 10/09/2013 11:23 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes:
I don't see at all that your suggested alternative has any advantages over
what's been written. If you can say NULL FOR (foo) as '' how will you
specify the null for some other column(s)? Are we going to
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 09:52:29AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 10/09/2013 09:22 AM, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/07/2013 11:34 PM, Amit Kapila
On 10/09/2013 01:25 PM, David Fetter wrote:
Idea:
NULL FOR (foo,bar,baz,blurf) AS '', NULL FOR (quux,fleeg) AS ...,
What's the point of this? How is this superior to what is currently
proposed? Having arbitrary NULL markers for different fields will
significantly increase code
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
I really don't know what you're saying here.
Here is the situation we have today (assuming the default null marker of
empty-string):
default: empty-string - null, quoted-empty-string -
emptystring
with
On 10/09/2013 03:25 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Therefore, a user who wants the opposite of the default behavior -
namely, unquoted empty strings as empty strings and quoted empty
strings as nulls - should specify both FORCE NULL and FORCE NOT NULL.
Is there a real world example of this case? How
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/09/2013 03:25 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Therefore, a user who wants the opposite of the default behavior -
namely, unquoted empty strings as empty strings and quoted empty
strings as nulls - should specify both FORCE
On 10/09/2013 08:39 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/09/2013 03:25 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Therefore, a user who wants the opposite of the default behavior -
namely, unquoted empty strings as empty strings and quoted empty
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/09/2013 09:22 AM, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net
wrote:
On 10/07/2013 11:34
On 10/07/2013 11:34 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/07/2013 03:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Also if your use case is to treat empty strings as NULL (as per above
documentation), can't it be handled with WITH NULL AS
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/07/2013 11:34 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net
wrote:
On 10/07/2013 03:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Also if your use case is to treat empty strings as NULL
On 10/08/2013 12:30 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/07/2013 11:34 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net
wrote:
On 10/07/2013 03:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Also if your
On 10/08/2013 12:47 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 10/08/2013 12:30 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Andrew, are you planning to review commit this?
Yes.
Incidentally, the patch doesn't seem to add the option to file_fdw,
which I really think it should.
cheers
andrew
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2013/10/9 Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net:
On 10/08/2013 12:47 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 10/08/2013 12:30 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Andrew, are you planning to review commit this?
Yes.
Incidentally, the patch doesn't seem to add the option to file_fdw, which I
really think it
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/07/2013 11:34 PM, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net
wrote:
On 10/07/2013 03:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Also if your use case is to treat empty strings as
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Amit Kapila amit.kapil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick barw...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
This patch implements the following TODO item:
Allow COPY in CSV mode to control whether a quoted zero-length
string is treated
On 10/07/2013 03:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Also if your use case is to treat empty strings as NULL (as per above
documentation), can't it be handled with WITH NULL AS option.
For example, something like:
postgres=# COPY testnull FROM stdin with CSV NULL AS E'';
Enter data to be copied
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net wrote:
On 10/07/2013 03:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Also if your use case is to treat empty strings as NULL (as per above
documentation), can't it be handled with WITH NULL AS option.
For example, something like:
postgres=#
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick barw...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
This patch implements the following TODO item:
Allow COPY in CSV mode to control whether a quoted zero-length
string is treated as NULL
Currently this is always treated as a zero-length string,
Hi,
This patch implements the following TODO item:
Allow COPY in CSV mode to control whether a quoted zero-length
string is treated as NULL
Currently this is always treated as a zero-length string,
which generates an error when loading into an integer column
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