On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Gauthier, Dave <dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com> wrote:
> Is there a way to regexp match on a null value?
I would say no.
> Or is it necessary to OR in a .... "or x is null"?
you could use a
COALESCE( text_column, '') ~ E'MyRegEx';
Or perhaps:
( text_column ~ E'MyRegEx' ) IS UNKNOWN
might work.
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