Re: [HACKERS] about NULL

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 10:46, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 21 May 2003 at 16:10, zhangyue wrote:
> > Hi,
> > How can I get the tuples one of whose attributes is NULL?
> > For example,
> >   First, create table tb(id int,name text);
> >   Then   insert into tb values(1);
> > insert into tb values(2,'Rose');
> >   I want to select the tuples whose attribute name= NULL,
> > How to write the sql ?
>
> select columns from table where attribute is null;
>
> This should have been on postgresql-general, not on hackers..
>

SELECT * FROM tb WHERE name IS NULL;
or even
SELECT * FROM tb WHERE name=NULL;
but the second one would work only if "transform_null_equals" is set to true
in postgresql.conf