Re: Recent updates - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Recent updates
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Msg-id 199807141344.JAA22222@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Recent updates  ("Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumnus.caltech.edu>)
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> postgres=> select null union all select null;
> ?column?
> --------
>
>
> (2 rows)
>
> An additional problem is that the UNION parsing is done recursively, so
> the routine which does the type matching does not see a list of all the
> clauses all at once.
>
> Any ideas?

I knew there was a reason I did not support NULL in union.  :-)

Just kidding.  I never thought of testing it, and a good thing too.  :-)

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