Re: wierd AND condition evaluation for plpgsql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alessio Bragadini
Subject Re: wierd AND condition evaluation for plpgsql
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Msg-id 1022763862.3447.6658.camel@iris
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In response to Re: wierd AND condition evaluation for plpgsql  ("Joel Burton" <joel@joelburton.com>)
Responses Re: wierd AND condition evaluation for plpgsql  ("Joel Burton" <joel@joelburton.com>)
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On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:09, Joel Burton wrote:

> Actually, at least in some cases, PG does short-circuit logic:

> joel@joel=# select false and seeme();

> joel@joel=# select true and seeme();

If seeme() returns NULL, shouldn't both SELECTs return NULL, and
therefore not be short-circuit-able?

Sorry, I am a little confused.

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