Re: Don't want blank data

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: David Olbersen <dave(at)slickness(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Don't want blank data
Date: 2001-01-25 20:43:24
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0101251241340.86017-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David Olbersen wrote:

> Greetings,
> Is there a way to have postgresql always return a value for each row
> requested? To be more clear, if I were using a Perl SQL hybrid I would write
> something like
>
> SELECT computer_ip or 'unset' FROM computers;
>
> So that if computers.computer_ip is NULL or '' I will get 'unset' back from
> the database. I hope this makes sense and somebody can point me in a good
> direction

Perhaps:
select case when computer_ip is null or computer_ip='' then 'unset'::text
else computer_ip end from computers;

(the ::text should probably be whatever type computer_ip is)...

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