On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 01:34:16PM -0400, Mike Mascari wrote:
> There also isn't any notion of typed NULLs. At least the C++ example
> has a zero-initialized pointer to a type.
Dunno about the rest but this is false. NULLs can be typed:
# select null::int4 as f into temp a;
SELECT
# \d a
Table "pg_temp_1.a"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
f | integer |
Not that it usually matters.
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