RE: Null-safe equal help, please

2003-12-19 Thread Knepley, Jim
LL ...returns tens of thousands of records. -Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:44 AM To: Knepley, Jim Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Null-safe equal help, please Please reply to the list so that others can follow this discussion

RE: Null-safe equal help, please

2003-12-17 Thread Knepley, Jim
-Original Message- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:44 PM To: Knepley, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Null-safe equal help, please At 15:22 -0700 12/16/03, Knepley, Jim wrote: >>I've got a WHERE clause: >>WHERE possi

RE: Null-safe equal help, please

2003-12-17 Thread Paul DuBois
equal help, please At 15:22 -0700 12/16/03, Knepley, Jim wrote: I've got a WHERE clause: WHERE possibly_null_value IS NULL That works fine. This null-safe equal doesn't do what I expect: WHERE possibly_null_value <=> NULL The manual, and my testing, shows that NULL <=> NULL evalu

Re: Null-safe equal help, please

2003-12-16 Thread Paul DuBois
At 15:22 -0700 12/16/03, Knepley, Jim wrote: I've got a WHERE clause: WHERE possibly_null_value IS NULL That works fine. This null-safe equal doesn't do what I expect: WHERE possibly_null_value <=> NULL The manual, and my testing, shows that NULL <=> NULL evaluates to 1, so Are you saying that this

Null-safe equal help, please

2003-12-16 Thread Knepley, Jim
I've got a WHERE clause: WHERE possibly_null_value IS NULL That works fine. This null-safe equal doesn't do what I expect: WHERE possibly_null_value <=> NULL The manual, and my testing, shows that NULL <=> NULL evaluates to 1, so my now-fevered mind sees no reason the two above statements are n