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On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 05:31:07PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> That is fine 
> but what I was actually expecting is this
> if 
> select * from table where col_name in (null, 'a', 'b');
> 
> to return those rows where col_name is null or if it = a or if it is = b
>  
> But i think in does not not support null queries , am i right?

You'll need to check the standard, but IN() treats NULL specially, I
think it returns NULL if any of the elements is null, or something like
that. It certainly doesn't work the way you think it does.

Have a nice day,
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