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From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
To: Gerhard Häring <haering_postgresql@gmx.de>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pgdb.py is still wrong in Postgres 7.3.1 rpm
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:54:10 -0500
Message-ID: <200301080854.10007.darcy@druid.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030107232853.GB512@lilith.ghaering.test>
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On Tuesday 07 January 2003 18:28, Gerhard Häring wrote:
> I recently asked a related question in the Python DB-SIGs mailing list
> recently in a thread
>
>     "cursor.description - values for 'I don't know'"
>
> asking which value to use for unknown values in cursor.description
> (here: the displaysize field).
>
> The answer is to use None for unknown values, *not* -1 like I proposed
> above. In fact, the DB-API 2.0 specification clearly says so, but it
> somehow slipped my eye.

I have fixed this in HEAD.

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