Re: [DOCS] NULL as a (pseudo-)value not described?

2014-09-12 Thread John Lumby
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:08:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [DOCS] NULL as a (pseudo-)value not described? From: david.g.johns...@gmail.com To: johnlu...@hotmail.com CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:24 PM, johnlumby johnlu

Re: [DOCS] NULL as a (pseudo-)value not described?

2014-09-11 Thread David Johnston
@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [DOCS] NULL as a (pseudo-)value not described? johnlumby wrote As far as I can tell, the un-value NULL is not described anywhere in the doc as being something that can be assigned to a column. E.g. : . not listed as a constant (well that's reasonable

Re: [DOCS] NULL as a (pseudo-)value not described?

2014-09-11 Thread johnlumby
... but ... (below) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:20:00 -0700 From: david.g.johns...@gmail.com mailto:david.g.johns...@gmail.com To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [DOCS] NULL as a (pseudo-)value

[DOCS] NULL as a (pseudo-)value not described?

2014-09-10 Thread John Lumby
As far as I can tell,   the un-value NULL is not described anywhere in the doc as being something that can be assigned to a column. E.g. :    .  not listed as a constant  (well that's reasonable as it isn't)     .  not listed as an expression  (is NULL an expression?)     .  not explicitly

Re: [DOCS] NULL as a (pseudo-)value not described?

2014-09-10 Thread David G Johnston
johnlumby wrote As far as I can tell,   the un-value NULL is not described anywhere in the doc as being something that can be assigned to a column. E.g. :    .  not listed as a constant  (well that's reasonable as it isn't)     .  not listed as an expression  (is NULL an expression?)