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Jul 2022
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NULLs are weird, PG15 makes them less we...

Hussein Nasser
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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.

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https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2022/07/postgres-15-unique-improvement-with-null

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