| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak(at)officenet(dot)no> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: bug or feature, || -operator and NULLs |
| Date: | 2006-10-18 13:54:39 |
| Message-ID: | 4536321F.90606@dunslane.net |
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Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
>> When in doubt, consult the standard ... Oracle's treatment of NULL is
>> known to violate the standard, IIRC. Your measure of correctness seems
>> to be "appears to me more logical", but ours is "complies with the
>> standard".
>>
>
> I know PG violates the standard in other places and core's favourite argument
> for doing so is "the standard is braindead here, so we do it our way".
>
>
In very few places. If you think that an argument like that will make us
break well established standards-compliant behaviour, you are surely
sadly mistaken.
cheers
andrew
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