we could go with phpmyadmin solution: null checkboxes next to string fields
On Monday, October 15, 2012 8:55:20 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Good point. If the field is of type string, the form > does distinguish between an empty string and null, assumes an empty string. > > On Monday, 15 October 2012 19:50:31 UTC-5, Yarin wrote: >> >> Is it possible to work with NULL values via the DB admin screens? >> >> I've got a bunch of string fields that should default to NULL, but >> everytime I try to insert a record through the admin screens they wind up >> as empty strings. Worse, existing records that have NULL values get those >> values replaced by empty strings if you update the record via the admin >> screen. >> > --