Re: CHECK constraint removing brackets

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andy Shellam <andy-lists(at)networkmail(dot)eu>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CHECK constraint removing brackets
Date: 2010-01-12 00:10:33
Message-ID: 21775.1263255033@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andy Shellam <andy-lists(at)networkmail(dot)eu> writes:
> I know about the <> and !=, for some reason != has always made better sense to me to read, so I tend to write it that way.

Yeah, a lot of people prefer != ... that's why we provide it as an
alias for <>. There's no functional difference.

regards, tom lane

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