Re: Old question - failed to find conversion function from - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ilja Golshtein
Subject Re: Old question - failed to find conversion function from
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Msg-id 42DD374B.000003.26351@mfront8.yandex.ru
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In response to Re: Old question - failed to find conversion function from  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
>> [* Actually, I think NULLs are typed in SQL, which means you should be
>> able to get type violations. ]
>
>I'm pretty sure the entire construct is illegal per a strict reading of
>the SQL spec --- the spec only allows NULL to appear in contexts where a
>datatype can be assigned to it immediately.

Honestly I cannot say this info changes too much for me (other DBMSs I use as backend handle this untyped NULLs),
thoughthe situation is clarified. 

Thanks a lot.

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Best regards
Ilja Golshtein

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