Re: Need an explanation - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alan Nilsson
Subject Re: Need an explanation
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Msg-id 949A8944-6952-4687-8B21-CCB61A2DED72@apple.com
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In response to Re: Need an explanation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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that was indeed the case.  Did not think to look at that, thanks much for the kick :)

alan

On May 7, 2013, at 7:30 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alan Nilsson <anilsson@apple.com> writes:
>> Could someone explain to me what I'm missing here.
>
> Probably there are some NULLs in dasp.asp_id.  NOT IN cannot succeed
> when there are any nulls in the sub-select result: per SQL spec, the
> outcome of such a test can only be FALSE or NULL.  If that isn't the
> behavior you want, try recasting the query to use NOT EXISTS.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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