Re: IN clause - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: IN clause
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Msg-id 20061124122010.GA11655@svana.org
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In response to Re: IN clause  ("surabhi.ahuja" <surabhi.ahuja@iiitb.ac.in>)
Responses Re: IN clause  ("Brandon Aiken" <BAiken@winemantech.com>)
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 05:31:07PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> That is fine
> but what I was actually expecting is this
> if
> select * from table where col_name in (null, 'a', 'b');
>
> to return those rows where col_name is null or if it = a or if it is = b
>
> But i think in does not not support null queries , am i right?

You'll need to check the standard, but IN() treats NULL specially, I
think it returns NULL if any of the elements is null, or something like
that. It certainly doesn't work the way you think it does.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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