On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 7/22/16 7:01 PM, Andrew Gierth wrote: >> In light of the fact that it is an endless cause of bugs both in pg and >> potentially to applications, I propose that we cease attempting to >> conform to the spec's definition of IS NULL in favour of the following >> rules: > > I can't see how we would incompatibly change existing > standards-conforming behavior merely because users are occasionally > confused and there are some bugs in corner cases.
+1 Anywhere we have standard-conforming behavior, changing the semantics of the standard syntax seems insane. We can create new syntax for extensions where we are convinced we have a better idea. -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
