Re: [boost] Interest in an ODBC library?

On 8/18/05, Brock Peabody <brock.peabody@npcinternational.com> wrote:

We could make abstract_row_set::get return an optional<field> instead of a field. Then row::get_field could return an optional as well.

I'd suggest that row::get, however, continue its current behavior which is to return a default constructed value in the presence of null fields.

I think the ability to detect NULL values for columns is a pretty important one in any database interface. Boost.Optional sounds like the perfect solution from a design perspective, but might hurt performance-wise. What if there were a method like bool row::is_null (unsigned int index)? -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com