[TYPO3-core] RFC: Fix FE user login for DBAL

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 18:37, Martin Kutschker wrote:
> He argues that you don't need a column that can take an empty string as a
> content. If you mean empty you should use NULL.

Yeah, except that it may be good to distinguish between a text field that has 
been touched but filled with nothing and a field that has never seen an 
update at all. Ah, what the heck. It's just sick.

> He says that it is no real problem because the API is most likely to turn 
> NULL into '' for the target language. 

So it's completely impossible to distinguish once the data is out of the DB, 
but you need to observe the difference in SQL. Wow.

Now, let's really stop this thread. :)

Karsten
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Karsten Dambekalns
TYPO3 Association - Active Member
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