| From: | Lew <noone(at)lewscanon(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: how to remove empty rows |
| Date: | 2011-04-27 12:52:20 |
| Message-ID: | ip93kd$dov$1@news.albasani.net |
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Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote:
> e-letter wrote:
>> The command 'INSERT INTO' was used to enter the sum of a mathematical
>> function into a table. On a condition, the result was null, causing
>> the creation of an empty row in the table.
>>
>> Using tho command 'DELETE' with the expression:
>>
>> ...=NULL;
>>
>> does not remove the empty row. How to remove please?
>
> NULL is *NOT* a value; use ISNULL to test.
Thus comparison to equal NULL ( = NULL) or to not equal NULL ( != NULL) can
never succeed. That's why SQL has "IS NULL" and "IS NOT NULL".
--
Lew
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