From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Don Drake <dondrake@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: NULLS and string concatenation
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:53:33 -0700
Message-ID: <20041119175333.GA42361@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041119174543.GA26505@wolff.to>
References: <6c21003b0411190912630d4afe@mail.gmail.com>
<20041119174543.GA26505@wolff.to>
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:45:43AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:12:38 -0600, Don Drake <dondrake@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was able to work around the problem by using COALESCE (and casting
> > variables since it wants the same data types passed to it).
>
> This is what you should do.
If you don't mind using a non-standard feature, another possibility
would be to create an operator similar to || that COALESCEs NULLs
into empty strings.
--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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