Re: NULL in IN clause

From: David Dick <david_dick(at)iprimus(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Havasvölgyi Ottó <h(dot)otto(at)freemail(dot)hu>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: NULL in IN clause
Date: 2005-10-19 20:43:56
Message-ID: 4356B00C.2040702@iprimus.com.au
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As i understand it, the use of NULL in SQL means the value of the column
is unknown. Therefore that result would seem fair.

Havasvölgyi Ottó wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just run this command on 8.0.4 :
>
> SELECT 'foo' WHERE 0 NOT IN (NULL, 1);
>
> And it resulted is zero rows.
> Without NULL it is OK.
> Is this a bug, or the standard has such a rule?
>
> Best Regards,
> Otto
>
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