Conditional expresion in query

From: JORGE MALDONADO <jorgemal1960(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Conditional expresion in query
Date: 2012-02-09 15:25:08
Message-ID: CAAY=A780HT7gzBmt2HhnsxAR26DzhLVo1HXXAPkiCE5k492+DA@mail.gmail.com
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I have been reading about contidional expresions in a query and I have a
question about the following example included in the documentation:

SELECT a,
CASE WHEN a=1 THEN 'one'
WHEN a=2 THEN 'two'
ELSE 'other'
END
FROM test;

I would like to make a few changes but I need to give a name (an alias) to
the result of the CASE. Can an "AS" be added as shown below?

SELECT a, b,
CASE WHEN a=b THEN a
ELSE a || '-' || b
END AS ab
FROM test;

Respectfully,
Jorge Maldonado

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