prepared SELECT and placeholders with NULL values

Hi,

I'm having an issue using NULL values to fill placeholders in a
prepared SELECT statement. My table looks something like this:

CREATE TABLE person (id serial primary key, lname text not null, fname text);

Given queries like this (using the Perl DBI+DBD::Pg interface):
$i = $db->prepare('INSERT INTO person (lname, fname) VALUES (?, ?)');
$s = $db->prepare('SELECT id FROM person WHERE lname = ? AND fname = ?');

These insert operations work fine:
$i->execute('Bono', 'Sonny');
$i->execute('Cher', undef);

This select works properly as well, returning the appropriate "id" value:
$s->execute('Bono', 'Sonny');

But this does not, returning an empty list:
$s->execute('Cher', undef);

My environment:
- PostgreSQL 8.1.3
- Perl 5.8.8
- DBI 1.50
- DBD::Pg 1.43

Any ideas? Thanks.

- Mike