IS DISTINCT FROM not documented

Started by Bruno Wolff IIIalmost 22 years ago2 messagesdocs
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#1Bruno Wolff III
bruno@wolff.to

On one of the other lists a suggestion was made to use the IS DISTINCT FROM
operator. I didn't remember seeing anything about this before so I tried
to look it up in the 7.4.2 documentation. After not finding anything, I tried
grepping the documentation source and was only able to find a reference
to it in the release notes for 7.3. It may be that because of line breaks
or mark up that I missed it. But even if it is there, it doesn't seem to
be in an obvious place.

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Bruno Wolff III (#1)
Re: IS DISTINCT FROM not documented

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:

... But even if it is there, it doesn't seem to
be in an obvious place.

Actually, I just added docs for the row-wise version a day or two ago:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/functions-comparisons.html#AEN12851

But it should probably be mentioned somewhere in section 9.2 (comparison
operators) as well. Anyone want to craft some text?

regards, tom lane