From: Warren Young
Date: June 30 2008 1:10pm
Subject: Re: Status of mysqlpp::Null in ssqls
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Soul Boy wrote:
> Hi I can understand what your saying however from a users/usability
> point of view it would be intuitive and useful if there was someway of
> doing this other than declaring all your macros as nulls just in case
> you want to insert a null value sometimes.

Null-ness in SQL is a matter of data type.  C++ is a statically-typed 
language.  What you're asking is basically for dynamic typing.

If you think there's a way it could be done the way you want, you're 
welcome to send a patch to the list so we can discuss something concrete.