Re: IN clause

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: "surabhi(dot)ahuja" <surabhi(dot)ahuja(at)iiitb(dot)ac(dot)in>
Cc: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: IN clause
Date: 2006-11-24 12:20:10
Message-ID: 20061124122010.GA11655@svana.org
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 05:31:07PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> That is fine
> but what I was actually expecting is this
> if
> select * from table where col_name in (null, 'a', 'b');
>
> to return those rows where col_name is null or if it = a or if it is = b
>
> But i think in does not not support null queries , am i right?

You'll need to check the standard, but IN() treats NULL specially, I
think it returns NULL if any of the elements is null, or something like
that. It certainly doesn't work the way you think it does.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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