On Friday, February 2, 2018, Michael <asper(at)tagan(dot)ru> wrote:
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> However, in a postgresql 9.3.2, such a call does not lead to an error.
If you are saying 9.3.2 gives a result and 9.3.20 raises an error I suspect
the response in 9.3.2 was bogus and giving an error instead of a bogus
result was deemed the best fix.
> how then should the function respond to a call
> select crypt('123',NULL);
> this does not cause an error
>
It probably returns null because I would hope the function is defined as
strict.
David J.