From: "Adrian Ashley" <adrian.ashley@broadcom.com>
To: "Mel Hatzis" <hatzis@juniper.net>
Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Expected behaviour for absent fields
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 13:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <406C13B1.1020904@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4068B3FD.4090307@juniper.net>
Mel Hatzis wrote:
> It's inclusion in the 'index' fields is also relevant here.
> Based on your observed behaviour, I assume that it's also
> not defined as an "index" field.
That's true.
> [ The reason this is relevant is that all fields defined in
> the "index" are assigned an empty value in the index, when
> a PR is added to the index. Subsequent GNATS queries will
> use the index to determine the field value, and therefore
> a NULL value wouldn't be returned. ]
Is this a Feature? Perhaps the fact that a field is defined in the
index ought to have a side-effect of setting its value to "" if there is
no default?
> Given the relatively small size of the fix-rel values, I
> suggest you might want to try adding the field to the "index"
> as a work-around. This should address the query problem you have
> and won't otherwise be much of an impact on your existing
> configuration.
I did this, and it works. Thanks.
Adrian Ashley
Broadcom Corp.
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2004-03-29 20:25 Adrian Ashley
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