Re: Query related

From: Julius Tuskenis <julius(at)nsoft(dot)lt>
To: Ashish Karalkar <ashishka(at)synechron(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, suresh gupta <suresh(dot)g(at)zensar(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Query related
Date: 2009-03-13 07:52:51
Message-ID: 49BA10D3.9070200@nsoft.lt
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Hello
> postgres=# create table name(fn text,ln text);
fn and ln could be nulls, so instead of
> postgres=# select fn||' '||ln as name from name;
SELECT COALESCE(fn,'')||' '||COALESCE(ln,'') from name should be used.
This is because NULL||TEXT = NULL

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