V4MD - <null> results with lingo

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 16/7/07 8:39 PM, "Bart Pietercil" <bart.pietercil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Giacomo,
> 
> while Ruslan is working on a permanent fix, you could try to set the
> default values of your text fields to '' (empty string) and NOT
> accept NULL values in those fields.
> This way you eliminate the need for a check and you always get the
> expected result.

This is not very good idea, because EMPTY TEXT VALUE is not the same as NULL
value.

    NULL eats only 4 bytes on disk
    EMPTY eats ONE SEGMENT SIZE

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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