From: Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com>
To: George Handin <postgresql@dafunks.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Concat two fields into one at runtime
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:53:50 -0500
Message-ID: <bf05e51c0606080853o6f349107u868a68224e2eed5b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44884736.3080309@dafunks.com>
References: <44884736.3080309@dafunks.com>
select id, first || ' ' || last
from mytable;
On 6/8/06, George Handin <postgresql@dafunks.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way using built-in PostgreSQL functions to combine two data
> fields into a single field at runtime when querying data?
>
> For example, the query now returns:
>
> id first last
> --- ------- ----------
> 1 Goerge Handin
> 2 Joe Rachin
>
> I'd like it to return:
>
> id name
> --- -------------------
> 1 George Handin
> 2 Joe Rachin
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
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>
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