Re: selecting all records where a column is null - Mailing list pgsql-general

From terry@greatgulfhomes.com
Subject Re: selecting all records where a column is null
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In response to selecting all records where a column is null  ("Elmshauser, Erik" <erike@pbgnw.com>)
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select * from table where field IS NULL;

Terry Fielder
Network Engineer
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
terry@greatgulfhomes.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of
> Elmshauser, Erik
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 2:47 PM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] selecting all records where a column is null
>
>
> Hi, I am trying to select every record from a table where a specific
> column does not have a value in it yet.  Is there a way to
> express that
> in a SQL statement?  Here are the few I tried:
>
> select * from table where field;
> select * from table where field = '';
> select * from table where field = NULL;
>
> and some other stuff the is way more broken.  I have flipped
> through the
> docs a bit but I haven't found anything useful yet.  If someone could
> point me to the right place in the docs or give me an example of a
> select that will do this I would be very grateful.
>             --Erik
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