From 76e4e13b803e43075282a97c3aa3ff842c99e2e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Khalikov <dennis.khalikov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:18:52 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(rowgroup,stringstore): MCOL-5597 Set length for `nullptr`
 string to 0. (#3027)

---
 utils/common/conststring.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/utils/common/conststring.h b/utils/common/conststring.h
index 6813cee0a..021529bf5 100644
--- a/utils/common/conststring.h
+++ b/utils/common/conststring.h
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ class ConstString
  public:
   ConstString(const char* str, size_t length) : mStr(str), mLength(length)
   {
-    idbassert(mStr || mLength == 0);  // nullptr mStr should have zero length.
+    if (!mStr)
+      mLength = 0;
   }
   explicit ConstString(const std::string& str) : mStr(str.data()), mLength(str.length())
   {