Re: Inconsistent compilation error

David G. Johnston wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 7:04 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Normally, literals are inside the first quotes. IE: raise notice '
> > blah_history.original_id' %', r;
> >
>
> ​But a compiler doesn't care about human concepts like "normally" - it just
> cares about "syntactically correct" and as David and Tom observe the
> original post as visually observed is correct. Which leads one to think
> that reality and the original post somehow don't match, or as Tom said what
> the server sees and what is sent end up being different (client encoding
> issues or some such).
>
> And pretty sure "r" being NULL just puts an empty string where the % is.
>
> David J.

passing a null value to raise notice outputs it as the string "NULL".