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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:59:15 -0400
From: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
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To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
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Subject: Re: How do you compare (NULL) and (non-NULL)?
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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 16:23:20 -0400,
>   Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com> wrote:
> 
>>In the following query
>>
>>SELECT Parent FROM Channels ORDER BY Parent ASC;
>>
>>If I have a couple of (NULL)s in the field [Parent], they will be listed at 
>>the bottom of the query result.
>>
>>Is it because PostgreSQL considers (NULL) as the biggest value? If I run 
>>the same query under MSSQL Server 2000, I get the exact opposite result 
>>regarding the order of (NULL)s and (non-NULL) values. They are listed at 
>>the very beginning of the query result.
> 
> 
> If the order matters, you can order by IS NULL or IS NOT NULL.
> 
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your
>       joining column's datatypes do not match
> 
> 

How do I write that?

Thanks

Wei