Re: Re: Release process

From:	Andi Gutmans	Date:	Thu, 03 May 2001 15:20:20 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: Release process
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At 10:17 AM 5/3/2001 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

On Thu, 03 May 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: Anyway, it's not something I think we should change right now. I think Andrei's MySQL patch should be reverted though. Many people are doing isset($row["foo"]) on their MySQL query results. Today if "foo" is NULL it will return false. If this is ever changed (some people thing it should) it will return true. So why not change the MySQL module back to the way it was? It worked for everyone and it might allow us to make this change in future. Ok, why do people do isset($row['foo'])?

To see if it's NULL.

Also, have you seen people complain about my patch to MySQL that adds NULL's to the result set?

No because isset() returns false for NULL values. But many people would like it to return true, and then it would break people's scripts. I guess at that point we could change the MySQL module back and not really break people's scripts. Andi