Re: IS NULL seems to return false, even when parameter is NULL

>I have a strange problem with the following condition in a SELECT:
> AND (("TableData" = "inDate") OR ("inDate" IS NULL))
>
> it works perfectly when the input date in the function (inDate) matchs
> a date in the table, but it does not work when the parameter inDate is
> NULL.
> I recall the function with pgadmin writing NULL as paramater.
> It seems that ("inDate" IS NULL) never returns true, even when the
> parameter is null...
> What's wrong?

Order is wrong, change it to

> AND (("inDate" IS NULL) OR ("TableData" = "inDate") )

PostgreSQL OR is not commutative if left operand evaluates to NULL.

Andrus.