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DISTINCT FROM NULL

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The DISTINCT predicate is a verbose way of NULL safe comparisons. If one of the operands is NULL, then it can be simplified to the NULL predicate.

Using Settings.transformPatternsDistinctFromNull, the following transformations can be achieved:

-- With Settings.transformPatternsDistinctFromNull active, this:
SELECT
  a IS NOT DISTINCT FROM NULL,
  a IS DISTINCT FROM NULL
FROM tab;

-- ... is transformed into the equivalent expression:
SELECT
  a IS NULL,
  a IS NOT NULL
FROM tab;

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