RE: SQL 'Case When...'

From: Oliver Graf <O(dot)Graf(at)Triestram-Partner(dot)de>
To: Bernie Huang <bernie(dot)huang(at)ec(dot)gc(dot)ca>, PGSQL-SQL <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: SQL 'Case When...'
Date: 2000-06-09 07:16:10
Message-ID: 4094ADEA26D8D3119F020000D1106EC4061711@BLAHFASEL
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> Don't know if it's possible, but how do I make the following SQL
> statments right?
>
> select attribute[1]
> from table
> case when attribute[1]='yes'
> then select attribute[2] from table
> else select attribute[3] from table;
>
> Basically, I want to compare attr[1], if true then select some fields
> from table; if false then select others.

Try this:

select case attribute[1]
when 'yes' then attribute[2]
else attribute[3]
end
from table;

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