Re: Weirdness with

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:44:21PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> I had this code in a script:
>
> UPDATE food_foods SET included=true WHERE verification_status = 'I';
> UPDATE food_foods SET included=false WHERE verification_status IS NULL;
>
> I tried replacing it with:
>
> UPDATE food_foods SET included=(verification_status = 'I');

(NULL = 'I') is null, not false. It will simply set rows where
verification_status is NULL to NULL also.

Perhaps you mean IS NOT DISTNCT FROM or something similar?

Have a nice day,
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