Re: why these results?

On 08/01/2011 03:50 PM, Wes James wrote:
> select count(*) from table;
>
> count
> -------
>     100
> (1 row)
>
>
> is correct
>
> select count(*) from table where col::text ~~* '%text%';
>
> count
> -------
>       1
> (1 row)
>
> is correct.
>
> But now if I do:
>
>
> select count(*) from table where col::text !~~* '%text%';
> count
> -------
>    98
> (1 row)
>
> Shouldn't it be 99?  That is out of 100 records there is one that has
> "text" in column "col" so the !~~* should return 99 rows.  ??
>
> -wes
>
select count(*) from table where col is null;

(null is neither equal nor not-equal to anything, even null)

Cheers,
Steve