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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu>
Cc: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: it's not NULL, then what is it?
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:42:27 -0400
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"Tena Sakai" <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> writes:
>> So they were null,

> Yes!

>> and null turns out to be a seven-character blank string!?

> I don't understand how that happens.  Mr Tom Lane
> hinted that it might be a bug in sprintf...

Well, that was before I read the messages where it turned out that they
were actually nulls after all.

			regards, tom lane

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