Empty string behaviour...

krofak

Today, I noticed different empty string behaviour then I am
used to.

Before, empty string was treated as null, so statement

vcResult := 'something' || ''

would result in vcResult = ''.

Today, result of this statement was vcResult = 'something'.

Does anybody know, when (which patchset) did this behaviour
with treating empty strings as null change?

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Oct 20 '05 #1

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HansF

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:17:59 +0200, krofak interested us by writing:

Does anybody know, when (which patchset) did this behaviour
with treating empty strings as null change?

Seems to work (something+'' = something) in 9.0.1.3.1

It would be somewhat useful for you to tell us the version and patchset
you are on, as well as the OS info.

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Oct 20 '05 #2

Frank van Bortel

krofak wrote:

Today, I noticed different empty string behaviour then I am
used to.

Before, empty string was treated as null, so statement

vcResult := 'something' || ''

would result in vcResult = ''.

Today, result of this statement was vcResult = 'something'.

Does anybody know, when (which patchset) did this behaviour
with treating empty strings as null change?

--
I find myself fascinating.

Not in Oracle... An empty string in Oracle is NULL.
NULL concatenated to s string is that string (nothing more,
nothing less).

I find you less fascinating; you obviously post in the
wrong group.
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Oct 21 '05 #3

krofak

"HansF" <Ne*******@telus.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:17:59 +0200, krofak interested us by writing:

Does anybody know, when (which patchset) did this behaviour
with treating empty strings as null change?

Seems to work (something+'' = something) in 9.0.1.3.1

It would be somewhat useful for you to tell us the version and patchset
you are on, as well as the OS info.

Version: 9.2.0.7. I am not sure about OS, AIX something

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