| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Marcus Engene <mengpg(at)engene(dot)se>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: NVL vs COALESCE |
| Date: | 2005-11-28 23:19:27 |
| Message-ID: | 200511282319.jASNJRI00188@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> On Nov 24, 2005, at 21:21 , Marcus Engene wrote:
>
> > When we're having an alias discussion, I'd really like to see NVL
> > in postgres. Not because of porting from oracle as much as just
> > spelling that without the reference manual is completely impossible.
>
> NVL: what a very unfortunate spelling. (NULL VaLue? NULL Valued
> Logic? Named Very Loosely? Someone help me here :) ) AFAICT, COALESCE
> is SQL standard, while NVL isn't. I think an index entry might be a
> good idea.
Agreed, documentation patch applied to HEAD and 8.1.X.
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