I noticed in the changelog for the upcoming 4.1.1 alpha release that
CONCAT_WS is being changed to NOT skip empty strings. I am sure that this
must have been done in response to feedback but I wonder if there are others
who like me have relied on the skipping of empty strings. Among other
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:05:07AM -0500, Will French wrote:
Are there others like me who would like to preserve the empty string
skipping version of CONCAT_WS. Perhaps the new version of the function
could be added under a new name like CONCAT_WS_NOSKIP or perhaps the option
to skip blanks
