From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: mascarm@mascari.com <mascarm@mascari.com>
Cc: 'Tom Ivar Helbekkmo' <tih@kpnQwest.no>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: behavior of ' = NULL' vs. MySQL vs. Standards
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:53:16 -0700
Message-ID: <web-69313@davinci.ethosmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9679.992012666@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom,
> Does Access only talk to Postgres via ODBC? (Seems plausible, but I
> don't know.)
Yes.
What about people copying-and-pasting queries generated
> by Access; is it even possible?
Yes, but MS Access uses some much non-standard SQL that "= Null" would
hardly be the only problem (try to build an UPDATE ... FROM in Access)
> I doubt that this'd really help much, in any case; it merely moves
> the
> necessary switch from the backend to ODBC.
Yes, but it does avoid cluttering up the PgSQL source with switches that
are only useful to a handful of users.
-Josh
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