"Jonas Forsman" <jfo...@hotmail.com> writes: > sql: > UPDATE user SET comment= E'[2011-11-16] Note to myself no: 171\\n' || > comment WHERE userid=1
> This query fails if comment is an empty string or null. Define "fails". Personally I'm wondering whether you remembered that concatenation of a null with something else yields null. You might possibly want to spell the above as SET comment = '...' || coalesce(comment, null) ..., if you want to pretend that a null is the same thing as an empty string. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs