From: A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: lower() not working correctly...?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:44:25 +0200
Message-ID: <20060915084425.GC21235@a-kretschmer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609151006.40801.andreak@officenet.no>
References: <200609151006.40801.andreak@officenet.no>
am Fri, dem 15.09.2006, um 10:06:40 +0200 mailte Andreas Joseph Krogh folgendes:
> I have the following query:
>
> select lower(firstname) || ' ' || lower(lastname) from person
>
> firstname and lastname are VARCHAR
>
> lower() returns NULL when firstname OR lastname is NULL, is this correct?
Yes. You can user coalesce for this:
select coalesce(lower(firstname),'') || ...
HTH, Andreas
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