Re: NULL values

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Mark Muffett <markm(at)muffett(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: NULL values
Date: 2001-07-10 19:08:58
Message-ID: 20010710140858.A4043@wolff.to
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:45:29PM +0100,
Mark Muffett <markm(at)muffett(dot)net> wrote:
> A simple question:
>
> Is there a Postgresql equivalent to the Oracle NVL( ) function, which allows a SELECT statement to fill in default values if a column is NULL?

coalesce will return the first nonnull argument.

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