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From: Rosser Schwarz <rosser.schwarz@gmail.com>
To: Caleb Simonyi-Gindele <csg@bordervet.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Group by failing on Null values
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:29:32 -0500
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while you weren't looking, Caleb Simonyi-Gindele <csg@bordervet.ca> wrote:

> How do I get it to produce a row even when dat_staff_code is null?

try something like

SELECT coalesce(dat_staff_code, 0)...GROUP BY dat_staff_code

That will substitute a zero for any NULL value in that column, which
GROUP BY should then pick up.

/rls

-- 
:wq



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