[Zope-DB] Re: [Q] Officially abandon "SQL-null -> Missing.Value mapping"

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:26:04 +0100


Matthew T. Kromer wrote:
> Missing.Value is a special singleton used by ExtensionClass.  No 
> database adapter should *ever* end up returning this singleton for NULL 
> answers.
> 
> So the big question is why you are getting Missing.Value ever assigned 
> to your results.  Do you have any adapter that is doing this?

The old ZmxODBCDA does this and the SybaseDA also uses this
mapping.

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