Port Bug Report: WHERE clause crashes when comparing to a NULL value

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Your name               : Aaron Seigo
Your email address      : aaron@moonlight.ca

Category                : runtime: back-end: SQL
Severity                : serious

Summary: WHERE clause crashes when comparing to a NULL value

System Configuration
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  Operating System   : Linux 2.0.36

  PostgreSQL version : 6.1.4

  Compiler used      : gcc 2.7.2.3

Hardware:
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Debian. Pentium, 128 MB

Versions of other tools:
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Problem Description:
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When an SQL query is made that has a WHERE clause that
compares a column with a value, and it comes to a field in
that column that has a NULL value, it crashes.

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Test Case:
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SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE table_column = 'VALUE';

make sure that at least one field in table_column is NULL.

can be avoided by doing:

SELECT * FROM table_name
  WHERE table_column IS NOT NULL
  AND table_column = 'VALUE';

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Solution:
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