Re: Recent updates

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Recent updates
Date: 1998-07-11 13:55:18
Message-ID: 35A76EC6.EC982E97@alumni.caltech.edu
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> > 5) automatic data type conversion now happens in every place it
> > needs to, I think.
> Good. I assume UNION NULL is still an issue one of us needs to fix.

Not anymore :)

postgres=> select text 'hi' union select NULL;
?column?
--------
hi

(2 rows)

It was a one-liner addition to check for NULL columns and do nothing for
conversions. Will keep the patch here for a couple of days while doing
more testing...

- Tom

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