Comment by optimuspaul
9 years ago
Why is this news?
It might be annoying but it's super easy to work around. It makes sense to not store empty strings, they provide no value and it would only take up space.
9 years ago
Why is this news?
It might be annoying but it's super easy to work around. It makes sense to not store empty strings, they provide no value and it would only take up space.
How do empty strings provide no value? It's a valid value for strings, one which many programs encounter regularly, and it's reasonable to want to store them. Refusing to store empty strings makes as much sense as refusing to store zeroes in a numeric field, because zero is "nothing."
> It makes sense to not store empty strings, they provide no value
`""`, just like `NULL`, is semantically difference from absence of record.