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To: David W Noon <david.w.noon@googlemail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: NOT NULL CHECK (mycol !='') :good idea? bad idea?
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 12:05:58 -0700
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On 06/03/2016 11:56 AM, David W Noon wrote:
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> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 11:16:33 -0700, Michael Moore
> (michaeljmoore@gmail.com) wrote about "[SQL] NOT NULL CHECK (mycol
> !='') :good idea? bad idea?" (in
> <CACpWLjPX-_80aXcJFbk7wxZWKPTs2Fyeywe=6HmgorzV2U=n7A@mail.gmail.com>):
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>> In Oracle, a NOT NULL constraint on a table column of VARCHAR in
>> essence says: "You need to put at least 1 character for a value".
>> There is no such thing as a zero-length string in Oracle, it's
>> either NULL or it has some characters.
>
> So Oracle is not compliant with ANSI standard SQL.
Though it looks like they want to be:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/sql_elements005.htm#SQLRF30037
"Note:
Oracle Database currently treats a character value with a length of zero
as null. However, this may not continue to be true in future releases,
and Oracle recommends that you do not treat empty strings the same as
nulls."
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