> Just for the sake of completeness...
>
> If the value (empname in the above example) can be NULL, the compare does
not work, because
>
> SELECT NULL = NULL
>
> returns NULL which is treated as FALSE.
>
> But I am sure you know this :-)
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Ladislav Lenart
>
> ___________________________
>
> Right. And that's why you use very nice option provided by PG:
>
> IF NEW.empname IS DISTINCT FROM OLD.empname THEN
>
> which again you probably know :)
>
> Regards,
> Igor Neyman
Yep, I got there pretty quickiy. IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM is pretty cool
stuff!