Re: Weirdness with - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Weirdness with
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Msg-id 20060130093018.GC7994@svana.org
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In response to Weirdness with =?  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:44:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> I had this code in a script:
>
> UPDATE food_foods SET included=true WHERE verification_status = 'I';
> UPDATE food_foods SET included=false WHERE verification_status IS NULL;
>
> I tried replacing it with:
>
> UPDATE food_foods SET included=(verification_status = 'I');

(NULL = 'I')   is null, not false. It will simply set rows where
verification_status is NULL to NULL also.

Perhaps you mean IS NOT DISTNCT FROM or something similar?

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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