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

Re: [PATCHES] correct NUL vs. NULL usage

2003-09-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
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 we should just standardi

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 s