2.8.2 Returns no results when we add "name IS NOT NULL"

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Hi, when I do a simple:

SELECT name FROM myindex;

I get back results, but if I do:

SELECT name FROM myindex WHERE name IS NOT NULL;

I get back no results. I have this problem at multiple points in my codebase, and it blew when I tried to migrate my existing sphinx index to manticore.

Do you know if this is a known bug?

Thanks!

2

NULL is only supported for JSON properties.
Manticore and Sphinx2 (no idea about Sphinx3) never had proper NULL support for regular attributes as empty strings and NULL (coming from a DB source) are stored as ‘’ (same goes for float/attributes -> NULLs from DB are stored as 0/0.0) and I think IS [NOT] NULL worked incorrectly in the past as it was matching NULL=’’.

Use name!='' or name=''.