Re: wired behaviour - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From ries van Twisk
Subject Re: wired behaviour
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Msg-id 9398884B-844E-49C1-9565-2E55838DC792@rvt.dds.nl
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In response to wired behaviour  (Lutz Steinborn <l.steinborn@4c-ag.de>)
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On Nov 28, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Lutz Steinborn wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have an problem understanding a simple query:
>
> For example I have the following:
> select count(*) from foo;
> gives me 1000
>
> select count(*) from foo where bar = 'Mr Spock';
> gives me 5
>
> select count(*) from foo where NOT bar = 'Mr Spock';
> gives me 857
>
> Why I'm not getting 955 for the last query ?
>
>
> Any idea ?



Do you happen to have any NULL values on the field bar??

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