Re: problem with new postgresql driver

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: awais <awais(at)techlogix(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: problem with new postgresql driver
Date: 2002-03-14 15:33:41
Message-ID: 20020314072913.X433-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, awais wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have a table named "atm" in our database which is uing latest
> driver of postgresql, it has a column named "location", all records
> (which are more than 1) of "atm" table have this column value set as
> (null). When we executed the query "select * from atm where
> location=null ", 0 rows were returned, which was not we were
> expecting.

This is the correct behavior. The test you want is really where
location IS NULL. The older versions had a hack to allow
=NULL be transformed into IS NULL due to some broken clients which
is now turned off by default.

You can use set transform_null_equals=true to get back the old behavior.

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