Re: concenation of strings and null values
Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
To: "Dieter Fischer (grid-it)" <dieter.fischer@grid-it.ch>
Date: 2003-10-07T21:33:00Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Dieter Fischer (grid-it) wrote: > Hello > > >>SELECT 'abc'::text || null::text; >> >>The last example looks like a bug, >>but if it is intentionally so, its >>at least very annoying and inconvenient. > > > NULL means here UNKOWN. You cannot add or concatenate something to an > undefined Value. You can but the result is UNKNOWN. Regards Gaetano Mendola