Was it necessary? No idea, you're welcome to search through the
pgsql-hackers archives to determine the reasoning behind the change. I
believe the change was made by Bruce Momjian (going by the release
notes). I only remember reading the discussion in passing.
This is also one of the reasons for beta releases - to allow people to
test against the new version and pick up these sort of things. Either
this gives them/you time to make changes, or to lobby to get the old
behaviour back.
If I were in your situation i'd probably hack back the old behaviour
to 7.3, compile and run that while changes were made. Or stick with
7.2.x until changes were made to your applications, have you got a
'big carrot' for going with 7.3?
Lee.
Ben-Nes Michael writes:
> That's indeed very nice but I don't see the logic in it.
>
> If I want to upgrade I need to go on all my projects and change thousands of
> lines.
>
> And that's not all :(
> I have other applications like phprojekt that was not developed by me and
> became useless now as I cant insert.
>
> Was this step so necessary ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Kindness" <lkindness@csl.co.uk>
> To: "Ben-Nes Michael" <miki@canaan.co.il>
> Cc: "postgresql" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>; "Lee Kindness"
> <lkindness@csl.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:37 PM
> Subject: [GENERAL] 7.3 -> pg_atoi: zero-length string
>
> > Hi, one of the changes in 7.3 was to disallow '' being implicitly
> > converted to 0. In your example below image_order is clearly not a
> > text/char column, so what are you trying to set it too? If you want it
> > be 0 then explicitly use 0, if you want it to be undefined then use
> > NULL.
> >
> > Lee.
> >
> > Ben-Nes Michael writes:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > After I upgraded 7.2.3 to 7.3 I started to get the following errors:
> > > pg_atoi: zero-length string
> > >
> > > its seems that i get it when not all field have content:
> > >
> > > this is one example that generate the error:
> > > insert into images (section_id, pic_date, image_order) values ('8',
> > > '2002-12-03', '')