Re: why these results?

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:50:00PM -0600, Wes James wrote:
> select count(*) from table;
>
> count
> -------
> 100
> (1 row)
>
>
> is correct
>
> select count(*) from table where col::text ~~* '%text%';
>
> count
> -------
> 1
> (1 row)
>
> is correct.
>
> But now if I do:
>
>
> select count(*) from table where col::text !~~* '%text%';
> count
> -------
> 98
> (1 row)
>
> Shouldn't it be 99? That is out of 100 records there is one that has
> "text" in column "col" so the !~~* should return 99 rows. ??

Wild guess:
select count (*) from table where col is null;
count
------
1
(1 row)

";-)

Reinoud
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