Re: [PATCHES] correct NUL vs. NULL usage

2003-09-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian writes: Tom, I understand your research on the historical usage of null, but in PostgreSQL we have not two but three possible uses for n-u-l-l: o null pointer o null byte o null SQL value With that list, anything that makes null clearer is great. I think

Re: [PATCHES] correct NUL vs. NULL usage

2003-09-24 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In C, NULL denotes a special pointer value indicating the pointer points to no value. NUL is the ASCII character that terminates a C string. These two terms are not synonymous, so this patch corrects the usage of NULL in comments in the postgres source.