At 10:07 AM 8/3/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
>> btw, it appears that SQL99 (haven't checked SQL92) specifies that
>
>> test=# select (1,2,3) = (1,2,null);
>>  ?column? 
>> ----------
> 
>> (1 row)
>
>> should return FALSE, not NULL.
>
>What?  If so, they broke it pretty badly. 

Date disagrees with Thomas on this one, too.

On the other hand, select (2,2,3) = (1,2,null) would be false
because 1 <> 2, therefore the result is not unknown.



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