Re: Two weeks to feature freeze

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jason Earl <jason(dot)earl(at)simplot(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Two weeks to feature freeze
Date: 2003-06-21 05:24:30
Message-ID: 20030621132228.M14306-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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> Sounds like testing for the existence of a bug.
> X = NULL
> X <= NULL
> X >= NULL
> Etc. must always test false, regardless of the contents of X. Test for
> equality with NULL is a conformance error if NULL == NULL returns true.

They should all return NULL, not false...

> > dates like '00-00-0000');

Yes, that's MySQL's idea of a NULL date. In fact, it's exactly what you
get when you insert a NULL date into a NOT NULL column - hooray the test
proves that MySQL accepts NULL values in NOT NULL columns...

Chris

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