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If found this twice in the 7.3.2 User Manual:

ALTER TABLE products ADD COLUMN description text CHECK (description <> ”);

Shouldn't there be TWO parenthesis marks?

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Dennis Gearon <ge*****@fireserve.net> writes:
If found this twice in the 7.3.2 User Manual:
ALTER TABLE products ADD COLUMN description text CHECK (description <> ”);


Where exactly? All I see is description <> '' ...

regards, tom lane

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Dennis Gearon <ge*****@fireserve.net> writes:
If found this twice in the 7.3.2 User Manual:
ALTER TABLE products ADD COLUMN description text CHECK (description <> ”);


Where exactly? All I see is description <> '' ...

regards, tom lane

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