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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.50.4 (3.50.4-1.fc39) MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 11:42 +0200, Navr=C3=A1til, Ond=C5=99ej wrote: > On a side note, I tested similar behavior in Oracle databases, and for th= em, something like=C2=A0 > select testtype(null, null) is null; -- returns 0 (false) > select testtype(null, null) is not null; -- returns 1 (true) > ...and as far as I could test, in Oracle the IS NULL and IS NOT NULL oper= ators are truly dual That only goes to say that Oracle is not very standard compliant, but I wouldn't expect anything else from a system where '' IS NULL. Yours, Laurenz Albe