[Zope-DB] ZSQL and update, what is the correct way to deal with nulls?

[David Wilbur]

aye, i had feared that might also be a factor here.  a friend had 
pointed me at popy, but after looing at the release dates that it seems 
that nothing has been done with it for quite a while.  is psycopg more 
current and up to date? it seem that from the product description.

Jim Penny wrote:

>On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:16:25PM -0600, David Wilbur wrote:
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>>hi,  
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>>i was hoping that someone could describe to me what is the right way to 
>>deal with null and zsql methods.  i have come up with the following 
>>_EXAMPLE_ below that works... but, this table only has one field that 
>>allows null and i'm sitting here saying to my self... wow, what if it 
>>had like 10 permutations of nulls?  i just cant envision that i would 
>>have to write 10 zsql methods.  i figure that i must be missing 
>>something in the rather sparse documentation on zsql...
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>This is database adapter dependent.  It is something of a corner case.
>I know that PoPy and psycopg handle it differently.  So, you really have
>to see what the adapter you are using does and adjust accordingly.
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>Jim Penny
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