Re: strange IS NULL behaviour - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: strange IS NULL behaviour
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Msg-id 20130704210605.GB18471@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: strange IS NULL behaviour  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> My recollection of the previous discussion is that we didn't have
> consensus on what the "right" behavior is, so I'm not sure you can just
> assert that this patch is right.  In any case this is only touching the
> tip of the iceberg.  If we intend that rows of nulls should be null,
> then we have got issues with, for example, NOT NULL column constraint
> checks, which don't have any such recursion built into them.

FWIW if changing the behavior of NOT NULL constraints is desired, I
still have the patch to catalogue them around, if anyone wants to play
around.  I haven't gotten around to finishing it up, yet :-(

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