[Zope] ZOracleDA-beta5 problem; possible bug running NT

[J. Cone]

I don't know about other databases, but you can get the result you want in
Oracle with the nvl function, by selecting

  nvl(optional_number, 0)

from the database.  If you couldn't control the replacement value and 0 had
an exisiting meaning, I would think that disastrous.

At 01:28 05/09/01 +1000, Zac Stevens wrote:
<snip>
>Still, if not the Principle of Least Surprise, it's certainly violating the
>Principle of Not Being a Tedius Pain :)  It would be far more convenient
>for it to return '0' for a NULL in a Numeric-type column, '' when in a
>String-type column, and EOF for a Binary-type column.  (If you see what I'm
>getting at)