On Jul 23, 2009, at 6:52 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
No, that's not the problem I see -- that solved the problem in my
particular code. The problem I see is that, given that the standard
says (according to Tom) that if any value is NULL then the record is
NULL, then I would expect this to return false:
SELECT ROW(1, NULL) IS DISTINCT FROM ROW(2, NULL);
But it returns true.
Sorry, I'm confused. Understandable I think. So:
ROW(1, NULL) is neither NULL nor NOT NULL. I've no idea what state it
is, but I guess that's the standard. In this case, IS DISTINCT FROM
gives me a sensible return value -- it assumes that the records are
NOT NULL, I guess, for its purposes. This is still inconsistent, since
the records are neither NULL nor NOT NULL, but perhaps sensible.
It's pretty insane, frankly. Gotta love SQL.
Best,
David
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