Re: How to avoid nulls while writing string for dynamic query

From: Tomasz Myrta <jasiek(at)klaster(dot)net>
To: Kumar <sgnerd(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)sg>
Cc: psql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to avoid nulls while writing string for dynamic query
Date: 2004-02-12 12:43:32
Message-ID: 402B74F4.7070604@klaster.net
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Dnia 2004-02-12 13:31, Użytkownik Kumar napisał:
> The error is because of no value for column c1. If the column c1 is a
> string I might have replace it with empty string. I don't want to
> substitute with '0' which could work.
>
> sqlstr := 'insert into test(c1, c2) values (' ||ISNULL(rec.c1,'0')||','
>
> ||'\''||rec.c2||'\')';

Substitute it with NULL value:
sqlstr := 'insert into test(c1, c2) values(' || coalesce(rec.c1,'NULL')
||...

Regards,
Tomasz Myrta

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