AW: embedded sql with indicators in other DBs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Subject AW: embedded sql with indicators in other DBs
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Msg-id 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA6879633680C1@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> What do other DBs do with their output variables if there is 
> an embedded SQL
> query resulting in a NULL return value? What I mean is:
> 
> exec sql select text into :txt:ind from ...
> 
> If text is NULL, ind will be set, but does txt change?
> 
> I was just told Informix blanks txt.

No, it gives a null string. 
In general Informix has a value that represents null that is 
'distinct from all legal values in any given datatype'.

Andreas


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