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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) <postgresql@ultimeth.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: NULLs and composite types
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:57:34 -0500
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"Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@ultimeth.com> writes:
> However, my problem is not that the comparison tests produce different 
> results;  that's just a symptom.  My problem is that PostgreSQL is 
> *changing* a NULL record value, to a record with NULLs for the component 
> values, when I attempt to INSERT or UPDATE it into a different field.  

I don't think there is any mechanism in core Postgres that would do that.

plpgsql, however, is a different story.  It has two different methods for
representing composite-type variables, and only one of those is capable of
representing a a "simple NULL" record value.  So I suspect what is
happening is that one of your plpgsql trigger functions is doing something
with the location field that causes it to become a row-of-nulls.  You've
not shown us enough detail to pinpoint the problem though.

			regards, tom lane


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