Re: Composite types and NULL within PL/pgSQL

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David J N Begley <d(dot)begley(at)uws(dot)edu(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Composite types and NULL within PL/pgSQL
Date: 2006-05-07 03:53:56
Message-ID: 87hd42wkvf.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> you cannot enter such a thing as a row of a table, for example, and that is
> the basic property that any rowtype ought to have no?

Well that logic would apply equally to any SQL datatype. You can't perform
arithmetic on NULL and that's the basic property any integer should have after
all.

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greg

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