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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgres behavior - Conditional statements
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:18:09 -0500
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David Johnston <polobo@yahoo.com> writes:
> Tom Lane-2 wrote
>> The behavior of CASE didn't change, but the behavior of the sub-select
>> did.

> CASE should be treated just like a function and the name of the function
> should be returned.  Arbitrarily picking the "else" branch to obtain the
> name of the result column seems somehow wrong.

[ shrug... ]  It's acted like that since roughly the late bronze age;
or to be more specific, since commit 2b189aa9537f7b4a of 1998-12-13.
Given the lack of previous complaints, it's going to take a lot more
than one man's opinion to change it.

			regards, tom lane


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