[Dbix-class] PF::Auto: empty string vs undef

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:38:00PM -0400, Jim Spath wrote:
> I just ran into an issue that another user posted to the list in October:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/dbix-class@lists.rawmode.org/msg01949.html
> 
> I was wondering if there were any updates to this particular issue?
> 
> It appears that my only choice is to pass undef instead of empty string 
> for the primary key column, but I guess I'm just curious if this is 
> going to be addressed or not :)

Let me guess, MySQL <5 or MySQL 5 without strict mode on? (or SQLite?)

Most databases would throw a type mismatch error; eventually it would be nice
is DBIC did that too for consistency on broken/substandard DBs.

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