[drupal-devel] I do not care about PHP 5

piotrwww at krukowiecki.net piotrwww at krukowiecki.net
Mon Oct 17 09:05:31 UTC 2005


On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 04:41:27PM -0500, Larry Garfield wrote:
> - NULL values.  Where would these be an issue other than pulling data from the 
> database?  I'm of the mind that given MySQL's poor handling of null vs. 
> default values, we should just always specify NOT NULL and a default for 
> every field, period.  That default value is then understood to be the "no 
> value" flag.  

Postgres does not accept NULL values for NOT NULL columns, iirc Mysql
will silently convert NULL to default value.     

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