From: Kenneth B Hill <ken@scottshill.com>
To: George Handin <postgresql@dafunks.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Concat two fields into one at runtime
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:54:01 -0700
Message-ID: <1149782041.1645.19.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44884736.3080309@dafunks.com>
References: <44884736.3080309@dafunks.com>
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 10:50 -0500, George Handin wrote:
> Is there a way using built-in PostgreSQL functions to combine two data
> fields into a single field at runtime when querying data?
>
> For example, the query now returns:
>
> id first last
> --- ------- ----------
> 1 Goerge Handin
> 2 Joe Rachin
>
> I'd like it to return:
>
> id name
> --- -------------------
> 1 George Handin
> 2 Joe Rachin
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
Try this:
SELECT id, first || || last AS name
FROM table;
-Ken
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