From: Gerwin Philippo <gerwin@vernet.nl>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: append columns that are null
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:26:15 +0200
Message-ID: <40ecf718$0$36169$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cch4kt$1i5s$1@news.hub.org>
References: <40ec1043$0$559$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>
<cch4kt$1i5s$1@news.hub.org>
THX! didn't know that one yet :)
nobody wrote:
> "Gerwin Philippo" <gerwin@vernet.nl> wrote in message
> news:40ec1043$0$559$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>
>>I have function that appends 2 columns, like
>>"new.field1 = new.field2||new.field3",
>>but when field 3 is null, then the entire outcome is null, while I
>>expected just field2, since when I append nothing to field2, I get
>>field2, right?
>>Is this standard behaviour, and if so, is there another append function
>>that I can use that doesn't behave like this?
>
>
> COALESCE is your friend...
>
>
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