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Jul 13, 2022 6 min

NULLs are weird, PG15 makes them less weird

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Postgres 15 introduces a new syntax to treat nulls as not distinct. This will allow developers to create a unique constraint on nullable fields and have inserts with nulls fail instead of having it allowed based on today's standard. Fundamentals of Networking for Effective Backends udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://network.husseinnasser.com Fundamentals of Database Engineering udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://database.husseinnasser.com https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2022/07/postgres-15-unique-improvement-with-null https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/84e5ee1b-387e-9a54-c326-9082674bde78%40enterprisedb.com

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