Re: strange IS NULL behaviour

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: strange IS NULL behaviour
Date: 2013-07-05 15:03:56
Message-ID: 19613.1373036636@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 04:29:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> No, it isn't, or at least it's far from the only place. If we're going
>> to change this, we would also want to change the behavior of tests on
>> RECORD values, which is something that would have to happen at runtime.

> I checked RECORD and that behaves with recursion:

Apparently you don't even understand the problem. All of these examples
you're showing are constants. Try something like

declare r record;
...
select ... into r ...
if (r is null) ...

regards, tom lane

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