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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:50:30 -0500
From: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
Organization: Mascari Development Inc
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To: Ed Loehr <eloehr@austin.rr.com>
CC: Joseph Shraibman <jks@p1.selectacast.net>,
	"pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org" <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] selectecting not null varchars.
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Ed Loehr wrote:
> 
> Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> >
> >  select * from directory where h != null  ;
> > ... gets you this:
> > ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near ";"
> 
> Postgresql's SQL "not equal" operator is "<>"...Try this:
> 
>         select * from directory where h <> null;
> 
> Cheers,
> Ed Loehr
> 

Does that work? I remember when the equality with NULL was added
because of non-compliant queries being generated from Access. I
didn't know inequality was implemented as well. Formal SQL is:

SELECT * FROM directory WHERE h IS NOT NULL;

Mike Mascari