Re: Query Which is not supposted to list NULLS is listing

From: "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: shreedhar <shreedhar(at)lucidindia(dot)net>
Cc: Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc(at)mega-bucks(dot)co(dot)jp>, Postgre General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Query Which is not supposted to list NULLS is listing
Date: 2003-05-27 09:31:16
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0305271026180.3028-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk
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Try seeing what happens with:

SELECT jassignedid, coalesce(JobComments,'X')
FROM tblJobIncharge
WHERE JobComments IS NOT NULL
AND projectid >= 50 AND projectid <= 100

That'll show you any results that in that column that are really null as 'X'.

Or even:

SELECT jassignedid, '>>' || JobComments || '<<'
FROM tblJobIncharge
WHERE JobComments IS NOT NULL
AND projectid >= 50 AND projectid <= 100

Which not only will show you real nulls (since null in a || operation gives
null) but also indicate the string between the '>>' and '<<'.

--
Nigel J. Andrews

On Tue, 27 May 2003, shreedhar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am attaching an output with this mail. I am sure that I am not inserting
> '' for jobcomments in any case.
>
> Sreedhar
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jc(at)mega-bucks(dot)co(dot)jp>
> To: "shreedhar" <shreedhar(at)lucidindia(dot)net>
> Cc: "Postgre General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Query Which is not supposted to list NULLS is listing
>
>
> > shreedhar wrote:
> > >
> > > SELECT jassignedid, JobComments FROM tblJobIncharge WHERE JobComments IS
> > > NOT NULL AND projectid >= 50 AND projectid <= 100
> > >
> > > Which is not supposed to list NULLS is listing NULLS also.
> >
> > I can't see anything wrong with your query. Can you give some output to
> > show what the problem is? The results should not contain and row where
> > JobComments IS NULL AFAICT.
> >
> > Maybe I missed something in your question so please give some output.
> >

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