Re: postgresql function not accepting null valuesinselect statement

In the documentation "IS NOT DISTINCT FROM" only appears in version 8.2
The 8.0 and 8.1 documentation only mentions "IS DISTINCT FROM".
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-comparisons.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-comparisons.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-comparisons.html
I haven't tried it, but probably replacing
WHERE f.statecd IS NOT DISTINCT FROM p_statecd)
with
WHERE not(f.statecd IS DISTINCT FROM p_statecd))
will do the same.

>>> "Jyoti Seth" <jyotiseth2001(at)gmail(dot)com> 2008-02-25 6:20 >>>
I have tried this, but it is showing following error:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "DISTINCT"
SQL state: 42601

Thanks,
Jyoti

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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [SQL] postgresql function not accepting null values inselect
statement

On Friday 22 February 2008 01:35:47 am Bart Degryse wrote:
> Can you try this...
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getfunctionaries(p_statecd integer)
> RETURNS SETOF t_functionaries AS
> $BODY$
> DECLARE
> rec t_functionaries%ROWTYPE;
> BEGIN
> FOR rec IN (
> SELECT f.functionaryid, f.category, f.description
> FROM functionaries f
> WHERE f.statecd IS NOT DISTINCT FROM p_statecd)
> LOOP
> return next rec;
> END LOOP;
> return;
> END;
> $BODY$
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
>
a newbie question. Could you explain why yours works? I don't understand
how
it works if p_statecd = NULL

--
John Fabiani

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