AW: null in constraints

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Andreas Degert'" <ad(at)papyrus-gmbh(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: AW: null in constraints
Date: 2000-09-13 08:53:20
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368075@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> with V7.02, it seems when a constraint evalutes to 'null', it behaves
> like 'true'. I'm rather sure this behaviour changed from
> V6.x, though I
> can't check it.
>
> example:
>
> create table test (a int4 check (a > 0));
>
> allows a to be null. But

yes

>
> select * from test where a > 0;
>
> doesn't return any null values.

yes

>
> Is this the intended behaviour?

Yes, previous behavior was wrong.

Andreas

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