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From: Murphy Pope <pope_murphy@hotmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ORDER BY and NULLs
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:36:36 -0400
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>> You should just cross out that whole section. It's just flatly wrong.
>> 
>> I had always assumed it was just people bringing assumptions over from
>> Oracle where it is true. Perhaps this book is to blame for some of the
>> confusion. Which book is it?
>> 
>> Postgres indexes NULLs. It can use them for ORDER BY clauses.
> 
> Now I'm confused...  

I think I found the definitive answer and it looks like everyone (Bruce,
Tom, the book) is half-right.  Maybe this should go in a FAQ or something
since there seems to be so much confusion. 

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