The definition of null is the absence of value and meaning. So
regardless of whether it's a null column or no rows, no meaning should
be applied to it. Thus these cases are the same.
If you want meaning to come from the row, return a value, perhaps the
row number.
Clinton
On 2010-04-13, cowwoc <cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope I'm not reopening a hornet's nest but I just noticed the
> following comment in the code:
>
> // Popular vote was to return null on 0 results and throw exception on
> too many.
>
> How do you differentiate between selectOne() returning null because
> it found no rows versus it finding a single row containing a null value?
> I remember Sun's Engineers had the same debate for auto-boxing (should a
> null Integer get unboxed as "0" or throw an exception?) and they settled
> on exceptions precisely because of this ambiguity. Was there a huge vote
> in favor of returning null for zero results or are you still open to
> some hand twisting? :)
>
> Gili
>
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