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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:

> Life is too short for this.
>
> Use the template fieldnames, put all your fields in there, every last one of
> them, then if they are blank, they go away.  Search for your fields by name.
> The number is going away, period.

Agree 100%... it's more than 30 years that the relational db people
agree on the NULL value significance or even acceptance (it isn't here?
has a default value? simply it's no significant?) and the
instance/attribute/value DB (which the kicad attribute system is a kind
of...) only *sometimes* have a default value defined.

IMHO if there is no value, the attribute has no reason to stay...

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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