On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:00:28PM +0000, Daniel Afonso Heisler wrote:
> When i run the following query, postgreSQL return TRUE.
> # SELECT true WHERE 1 NOT IN (2,3);
>
> But, when i run the next query, it don't return TRUE
> # SELECT true WHERE 1 NOT IN (2,NULL,3);
The expression "1 NOT IN (2,NULL,3)" evaluates to NULL because NULL
means "unknown." This comes up occasionally; see the archives for
past discussion.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2005-12/msg00219.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2005-10/msg00227.php
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Michael Fuhr