>>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 4:57 AM, in message
<37ed240d0710100257r149a8d2cmb671b69a1673eb54@mail.gmail.com>, "Brendan Jurd"
<direvus@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:57 +1000, Brendan Jurd wrote:
>>
>> > Wouldn't it be more useful if quote_literal(NULL) yielded the text value
> 'NULL'?
>>
>> I don't think you can change that now. There could be code out there
>> that relies on that behaviour.
>>
>
> Bummer. But I take your point. If there's a good chance someone is
> going to have their application murdered by a change here, best to
> leave it alone.
In particular, it seems like exactly what you would want for values
you're going to use in an INSERT or the SET clause of an UPDATE.
-Kevin