Decibel! wrote:
On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
update tname set foo = bar ... where foo is null or foo <> bar ...
FYI, you should be able to do WHERE foo IS DISTINCT FROM bar instead.
True, that's a bit nicer. It's still more than somewhat ugly and fragile
if there a lot of foos and the bars are complex expressions.
cheers
andrew
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