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[stellation-res] Decision on Oracle backend needed!
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Hello,
--- Dave Shields <shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Exactly! This does indeed look like bug in Oracle, as what happens
> when the user supplies a file consisting of the empty string. I
> suspect this will need to be translated to NULL in Oracle, even
> though the comment is not missing.
I have been digging in some Oracle archives (otn.oracle.com and
www.orafaq.com) and there are numerous complaints about an empty string
being transformed to NULL. As it seems, Oracle has always done this and
it is unclear if this will ever change. I'm not that of a database
expert, so I'm falling back on all you guys to come up with a decision.
1) We discuss this and come up with a workaround. For the comments,
it's not that of a problem, but as was pointed out, this could have
impact on storing empty source lines.
2) We dump the Oracle backend, maybe temporarily, and focus on the
other work.
You choose. If 1, I'll continue the support for the Oracle backend, but
in the other case, there are still a lot of other things I can
contribute to Stellation.
Ringo
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