Postgres `null` and `where <VALUE> not in`

Always watch out for null in Postgres. When null sneaks into a result set it may confuse the results of your query.

Without nulls a where in query could look like this:

psql> select 'found it' as c0 where 1 in (1);
    c0
----------
 found it
 (1 row)

For the where in clause a null does not change the results.

psql> select 'found it' as c0 where 1 in (null, 1);
    c0
----------
 found it
(1 row)

The where not in formulation however is sensitive to null. Without a null it looks like this:

psql> select 'found it' as c0 where 17 not in (1);
    c0
----------
 found it
(1 row)

Add in the null and the results can be counterintuitive:

psql> select 'found it' as c0 where 17 not in (1, null);
 c0
----
(0 rows)

Watch out for those nulls!!