Re: When is a record NULL?

From: David E(dot) Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: When is a record NULL?
Date: 2009-07-28 19:22:34
Message-ID: F5020398-BEE9-467F-BD10-876F43EA87CE@kineticode.com
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On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:19 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> Yep, that's just what I needed, thanks. I think I'll send a patch
> for the "Cursors" section of the PL/pgSQL documentation that
> mentions this. Would have saved me a bunch of hassle.

So would have reading two more sentences of the docs, which state, to
my surprise (that I missed it!), “As with `SELECT INTO`, the special
variable <code>FOUND</code> can be checked to see whether a row was
obtained or not.” D’oh!

So now I've got things working the way I need, and I've blogged about
these SQL pathologies so that I don't forget.

http://www.justatheory.com/computers/databases/postgresql/neither-null-nor-not-null.html

Thanks for the help, everyone.

Best,

David

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