Re: ROWTYPE initialization question

On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:07 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote:

> I suppose the real question is this: As it is not possible to
> initialize
> a %ROWTYPE type variable to NULL, is comparing it to NULL valid or
> is it
> comparing apples and oranges? Does it yield the expected result
> (true if
> the %ROWTYPE variable is undefined, false once it is defined)?
>
> It seems to work as is, but this part of PL/PgSQL seems to be a bit
> unspecific. It might as well have worked by using the FOUND special
> variable, or have yielded an error (which it didn't).
>
> Looks like I'll need to device some test cases to prove how the
> various
> subtleties behave. Now where did I put that can of time...

As far as I can tell from the code, checking a %ROWTYPE variable IS
NULL is perfectly valid. I view it as a bug that you can't assign
NULL to a %ROWTYPE variable.
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