Re: [SQL] empty string casting to typed value

2004-06-07 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, sad wrote: > It is clear that '' is a bad integer or timestamp representation > > but during the user input NULLs are usually represented with empty strings > sometimes bunch of 'if empty' instructions grows huge > (and in case of casting to timestamp apostrophes make sense)

Re: [SQL] empty string casting to typed value

2004-06-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:37:44 +0400, sad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > It is clear that '' is a bad integer or timestamp representation > > but during the user input NULLs are usually represented with empty strings > sometimes bunch of 'if empty' instructions grows huge > (and in c