Re: plpgsql functions and NULLs

You learn something new everyday. I've never seen that syntax before,
and it works like a charm!!

Thanks a ton.

-Don

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:31:34 -0800 (PST), Stephan Szabo
<sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Don Drake wrote:
>
> > OK, I have a function that finds records that changed in a set of
> > tables and attempts to insert them into a data warehouse.
> >
> > There's a large outer loop of candidate rows and I inspect them to see
> > if the values really changed before inserting.
> >
> > My problem is that when I look to see if the row exists in the
> > warehouse already, based on some IDs, it fails when an ID is NULL.
> > The ID is nullable, so that's not a problem.
> >
> > But I'm forced to write an IF statement looking for the potential NULL
> > and write 2 queries:
> >
> > IF omcr_id is null
> > select * from ....
> > WHERE omcr_id is NULL
> > AND ...
> > ELSE
> > select * from ....
> > WHERE omcr_id=candidate.omcr_id
> > AND ....
> > END IF;
>
> Hmm, perhaps some form like:
>
> WHERE not(candidate.omcr_id is distinct from omcr_id)
>
>

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