Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deola...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Hm, but what of the "null" value? Also, I get >> >> $ perl -e 'use warnings; use Test::More; ok("2017-01-01" != "null", "ok");' >> Argument "null" isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=) at -e line 1. >> Argument "2017-01-01" isn't numeric in numeric ne (!=) at -e line 1. >> ok 1 - ok
> It declares the test as "passed", right? Oh! So it does. That is one darn weird behavior of the != operator. > I am not saying that's a correct > behaviour, but that's why we didn't catch the problem earlier. Check. Mystery solved. There's still the point that we're not actually exercising this script in the buildfarm ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers