Re: Proposal: revert behavior of IS NULL on row types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Proposal: revert behavior of IS NULL on row types
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Msg-id 1b1537cd-f7c4-8431-fc9f-6673ed83572f@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Proposal: revert behavior of IS NULL on row types  (Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>)
Responses Re: Proposal: revert behavior of IS NULL on row types
Re: Proposal: revert behavior of IS NULL on row types
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On 7/22/16 7:01 PM, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> In light of the fact that it is an endless cause of bugs both in pg and
> potentially to applications, I propose that we cease attempting to
> conform to the spec's definition of IS NULL in favour of the following
> rules:

I can't see how we would incompatibly change existing
standards-conforming behavior merely because users are occasionally
confused and there are some bugs in corner cases.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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