thank you. that sounds like just the info I need.
Don
On Thu, 22 May 2003, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote:
> the correct way to do it is
> select id,postaladdressid from users where postaladdressid IS null;
>
> I could tell you way, but this explanation (http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/BriefGuideToNulls) is
> so good that I'would waste your time :)
>
> On Thursday 22 May 2003 17:17, Don Park wrote:
> > Im trying to pull out all records in a table where field
> > 'postaladdressid=null' but I cant figure this out.
> >
> > \d users
> > ....
> > id | numeric
> > postaladdressid | numeric
> > ....
> >
> > adhoc=# update users set postaladdressid=null where id=50;
> > UPDATE 1
> >
> > adhoc=# select id,postaladdressid from users where postaladdressid=null;
> > id | postaladdressid
> > ----+-----------------
> > (0 rows)
> >
> > Why did it not select record 50?
> >
> > just for your info, this is what record 50 looks like.
> > adhoc=# select id,postaladdressid from users where id=50;
> > id | postaladdressid
> > ----+-----------------
> > 50 |
> > (1 row)
> >
> >
> > Don
>
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