| From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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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: | 2005-11-24 12:43:57 |
| Message-ID: | 4385B58D.3090804@familyhealth.com.au |
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If we're going to do that we should add IFNULL() from MySQL as well...
Chris
Michael Glaesemann wrote:
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> On Nov 24, 2005, at 21:21 , Marcus Engene wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
>
> Michael Glaesemann
> grzm myrealbox com
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