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Bug #54026 PostgreSQL: cannot bind NULL value to statement condition
Submitted: 2011-02-15 14:59 UTC Modified: 2013-10-15 11:54 UTC
From: abrahala at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: PDO related
PHP Version: 5.3.5 OS: Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64
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 [2011-02-15 14:59 UTC] abrahala at gmail dot com 
Description:
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It seems to be impossible to pass NULL value to a PDO PostgreSQL statement neither with bindValue nor using '?'-format and $statement->execute(array(null)).

Test script:
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$pdo = new PDO('pgsql:host=localhost;port=5432;dbname=db', 'user', 'pass');
$statement = $pdo->prepare('SELECT \'ok\' WHERE NULL IS :nullValue');
$statement->bindValue(':nullValue', null, PDO::PARAM_NULL);
$statement->execute();
$result = $statement->fetchColumn(0);
var_export($result);

Expected result:
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'ok'

Actual result:
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false

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 [2011-02-15 15:28 UTC] abrahala at gmail dot com
-Summary: PostgreSQL: cannot bind NULL value to statement +Summary: PostgreSQL: cannot bind NULL value to statement condition
 [2011-02-15 15:28 UTC] abrahala at gmail dot com 
Sorry, I forgot to mention this only applies to binding a null value as part of a condition. Value assignment works fine (fieldName = :nullValue), so it might has to do something with the 'IS' keryword?
 [2011-07-30 23:36 UTC] dverite at gmail dot com 
You should write "...WHERE :nullValue IS NULL" instead of ".. WHERE NULL IS :nullValue", otherwise execute() fails with a syntax error.
I'm not sure your example would work anyway since passing a null value in a bind parameter seems problematic, but at least it would fail because of PDO and not because of the SQL itself :)
 [2013-06-28 20:16 UTC] yohgaki@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback
 [2013-06-28 20:16 UTC] yohgaki@php.net 
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 [2013-10-15 11:54 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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