Re: Make foo=null a warning by default.

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Make foo=null a warning by default.
Date: 2018-07-16 15:06:48
Message-ID: CA+Tgmobgqfc7NJsZbKzzg0ix-97x-qxKDBpHrZYVPaz0uG0URQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
> I don't agree with changing the default to 'warn'. "foo = NULL" is perfectly
> legal SQL, even if it's not very useful in practice.

+1. I think that will probably generate lots of annoying warnings in
server logs compared to the value it adds. I don't object to having
an optional feature to generate warnings, but I think it should be
something a particular user needs to activate, not something we enable
by default.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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