Dwight Emmons wrote:
> I am upgrading from Postgres 7.2 to 8.1.  We have multiple systems
> already in place that took advantage of the implicit cast of a null
> '' string to an integer of '0'.  It is not financially feasible for
> us to modify all the instances.  Does anyone know of a fix?   

Well, if you want all your clients to interpret a null value in that
column as zero, can't you just update the column to actually contain a
zero for those rows?

-- 
Guy Rouillier

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