From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com>
To: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@despammed.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [despammed] sql can i substitute
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:48:15 +0530
Message-ID: <0412171748151J.06834@thenilgiris.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217114533.GA17038@Pinguin.wug-glas.de>
References: <0412171655451H.06834@thenilgiris.com>
<20041217114533.GA17038@Pinguin.wug-glas.de>
On Friday 17 December 2004 05:15 pm, Andreas Kretschmer wrote:
> test=# select * from fruit;
> name | fruit
> --------+-------
> Apple | 1
> Banana | 2
> Cherry | 3
> (3 Zeilen)
>
>
> test=# select name, fruit, case
> test-# when fruit = 1 then 'good'
> test-# when fruit = 2 then 'bad'
> test-# when fruit = 3 then 'rotten' end from fruit;
> name | fruit | case
> --------+-------+--------
> Apple | 1 | good
> Banana | 2 | bad
> Cherry | 3 | rotten
> (3 Zeilen)
thanks - opened up a whole new world for me. One more thing, the values come
under the column 'case', can i avoid having the column 'case' and get the
'good', 'bad' and 'rotten' under the column 'fruit'?
kg
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