[Qgis-developer] NULL handling and numeric data types

Matthias Kuhn matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch
Wed Sep 24 07:59:48 PDT 2014


Hi Andreas,

I think we can. It should be quite easy. Let me give it a try.

Matthias

On 24.09.2014 16:51, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I frequently have data with NULL values and still have problems with
> QGIS correctly handling them.
>
> While QGIS displays NULL values of text types correctly as NULL, NULL
> values of numeric data types (e.g. smallint, double, numeric) just
> display as an empty string. I would rather like to see NULL instead of
> the empty string in the widget.
>
> Can we do something about that so that NULL values are correctly
> displayed as NULL also for numeric data types?
>
> QGIS server even displays numeric values with NULL values as "0" instead
> of "NULL" - which is wrong in my opinion. It is misleading as 0 and NULL
> are not the same.
>
> My data is in Postgis and I tested both with 2.4 and current master.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
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