On 10/23/19 11:00 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On 10/23/19 10:51 AM, Geoff Winkless wrote:
Two string constants that are only separated by whitespace with at
least one newline are concatenated and effectively treated as if the
string had been written as one constant.
Then -- since the 'e' is separated from 'd' by a comma, the result should be
"4", not "3".
No, because your command is equivalent to
select count(*) from bugtest where fld1 in ('a','b','cd','e');
'cd' does not match any of the table rows, so 3 is the correct answer.
Yes, that's my mistake.
No doubt: it's a bug, no matter what the Pg devs say.
Complain to the SQL standards committee, not us.
As much as I hate to say it, MSFT was right to ignore this bug in the standard.
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