From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Weirdness with |
Date: | 2006-01-30 09:30:18 |
Message-ID: | 20060130093018.GC7994@svana.org |
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:44:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> I had this code in a script:
>
> UPDATE food_foods SET included=true WHERE verification_status = 'I';
> UPDATE food_foods SET included=false WHERE verification_status IS NULL;
>
> I tried replacing it with:
>
> UPDATE food_foods SET included=(verification_status = 'I');
(NULL = 'I') is null, not false. It will simply set rows where
verification_status is NULL to NULL also.
Perhaps you mean IS NOT DISTNCT FROM or something similar?
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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