>Well, it would obviously be better if PG could figure out it was safe,
>but I'm not sure there's a general case where it is. You can see it's OK
>because you know there's only one row in your SELECT result-set.
I think, it's OK because NULL can be compared with anything
with predictable result and no additional information about
types is necessary.
Is it correct vision?
I agree it's hard to proceed your query with UNION
and some sort of error is reasonable here.
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Ilja Golshtein
