On Jul 23, 2009, at 3:19 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

How can a record be neither NULL or NOT NULL?

   try=# select ROW(1, NULL) IS NULL;
    ?column?
   ----------
    f
   (1 row)

   try=# select ROW(1, NULL) IS NOT NULL;
    ?column?
   ----------
    f
   (1 row)

This makes it rather hard to tell, in PL/pgSQL, when I've fetched the last record from a cursor…

Also:

select ROW(1, NULL) IS DISTINCT FROM ROW(2, NULL);
 ?column?
----------
 t

As expected, but the IS NULL above is not expected (by this bunny, anyway).

Best,

David


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