Re: Documentation tweak for row-valued expressions and null

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Documentation tweak for row-valued expressions and null
Date: 2015-11-10 16:10:20
Message-ID: 564216EC.9000107@BlueTreble.com
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On 7/26/15 8:40 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I wonder if it might be worth adding a tiny note to the manual to
> point out that the special logic for "<row-valued-expression> IS [ NOT
> ] NULL" doesn't apply anywhere else that we handle nulls or talk about
> [non]-null values in the manual. See attached.

Yes. This is a common point of confusion.
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Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL
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