| From: | "Edward Q(dot) Bridges" <ed(dot)bridges(at)buzznik(dot)com> |
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| To: | "gserrato(at)sager(dot)telecom-co(dot)net" <gserrato(at)sager(dot)telecom-co(dot)net>, "Nick Fankhauser" <nickf(at)ontko(dot)com>, "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | RE: NVL (sql oracle) |
| Date: | 2000-11-09 22:29:13 |
| Message-ID: | 200011092241.eA9MfHs81101@mail.postgresql.org |
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:45:53 -0800 (PST), Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> If I'm not misremembering what NVL does, the equivalent
> is coalesce.
or maybe NULLIF?
>
> Stephan Szabo
> sszabo(at)bigpanda(dot)com
>
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Nick Fankhauser wrote:
>
> > > NVL in postgreSQL???
> >
> > That was also my first thought when looking at Jeff Eckerman's string
> > concatenation dilemma. I don't find NVL or anything that remotely resembles
> > it anywhere in the docs. Having such a function would cetainly be handy. Can
> > anyone clue us in on the process for submitting suggestions to the code
> > hackers? (or point out a similar function that I missed...)
>
>
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