Re: Excluding null values

From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Sharon Cowling <sharon(dot)cowling(at)sslnz(dot)com>, "Pgsql-Novice (E-mail)" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Excluding null values
Date: 2002-03-13 23:22:54
Message-ID: web-827379@davinci.ethosmedia.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-novice

Ms. Cowling,

> I have a table which stores a list of locations that a person can
> have. In my application I need to get this list of locations, but I
> don't want the list to contain any null values, a person must have
> at least 1 location (done in application code) but the rest of them
> can be null, only when I bring up the list of possible locations for
> a person I only want the not null ones, is there any way of
> achieving this in sql, or will I need to do this at the application
> level? Normally I would just say where column is not null, but
> there are 11 columns in this table that can be not null.

Hmmm ... I'm not sure where to start. Your database design is *not*
normalized. Is this a legacy structure you're saddled with, or is it
possible to re-design it?

-Josh

In response to

Browse pgsql-novice by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Jules Alberts 2002-03-14 15:38:14 simple previous / next form in PHP
Previous Message thiemo 2002-03-13 23:14:37 Nested groups