Re: Problem with rule and null value - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Harald Armin Massa
Subject Re: Problem with rule and null value
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Msg-id 7be3f35d041024031266ba39dd@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Problem with rule and null value  (Marc Boucher <marcb@box100.com>)
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>    ON UPDATE TO album WHERE new.pls_id != old.pls_id

> It works until new.pls_id or old.pls_id is null. The rule is still called
> (based on my test), but the "DO" query is not executed correctly. The
> values in "album_edit" are not updated.


To compare "NULL" to something is allways a bad idea. The behaviour in
Postgres is exactly as documented and specified within the
SQL-standard.

BUT... that is quite different from what you would expect.

To test on "NULL" values within SQL only "is null" is helpfull.

I would strongly recommend to you to read the appropriate chapters
about Null-Values. It seems strange at first but managable.

Harald

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