Re: COALESCE documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: COALESCE documentation
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Msg-id d67def4741aec22bb16a10fb7dcbae4086daf125.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: COALESCE documentation  (Navrátil, Ondřej <onavratil@monetplus.cz>)
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On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 11:42 +0200, Navrátil, Ondřej wrote:
> On a side note, I tested similar behavior in Oracle databases, and for them, something like 
> select testtype(null, null) is null; -- returns 0 (false)
> select testtype(null, null) is not null; -- returns 1 (true)
> ...and as far as I could test, in Oracle the IS NULL and IS NOT NULL operators are truly dual

That only goes to say that Oracle is not very standard compliant, but
I wouldn't expect anything else from a system where '' IS NULL.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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