From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Organization: OfficeNet AS
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: lower() not working correctly...?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:52:53 +0200
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I have the following query:

select lower(firstname) || ' ' || lower(lastname) from person

firstname and lastname are VARCHAR

lower() returns NULL when firstname OR lastname is NULL, is this correct?

This is 8.2devel from 24.08.2006.

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Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Senior Software Developer / Manager
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