Updates with NULL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Shridhar Daithankar
Subject Updates with NULL
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Msg-id 3F661458.13553.39E18094@localhost
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Responses Re: Updates with NULL  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
Re: Updates with NULL  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Updates with NULL  (Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>)
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Hello All,

I was just updating a table in oracle9.2 by hand and bumped into this.

Following seems to be the valid syntax in oracle.

Update foo set somefield=NULL where somefield >9;

Now I am not sure having something equalled with NULL is a good thig logically.
I would say

Update foo set somefield [to] NULL where somefield >9;

sounds much better. Postgresql uses =default expression which is fine.

Is Oracle behaviour correct?


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