Re: strange IS NULL behaviour

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-07-05T15:48:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jul  5, 2013 at 11:03:56AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Thu, Jul  4, 2013 at 04:29:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> No, it isn't, or at least it's far from the only place.  If we're going
> >> to change this, we would also want to change the behavior of tests on
> >> RECORD values, which is something that would have to happen at runtime.
> 
> > I checked RECORD and that behaves with recursion:
> 
> Apparently you don't even understand the problem.  All of these examples
> you're showing are constants.  Try something like
> 
> 	declare r record;
> 	...
> 	select ... into r ...
> 	if (r is null) ...

Not aparently --- I already said I didn't understand the problem. 
Should I just mark this as a TODO?

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