Re: Concat two fields into one at runtime

select id, first || ' ' || last
from mytable;

On 6/8/06, George Handin <postgresql(at)dafunks(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way using built-in PostgreSQL functions to combine two data
> fields into a single field at runtime when querying data?
>
> For example, the query now returns:
>
> id first last
> --- ------- ----------
> 1 Goerge Handin
> 2 Joe Rachin
>
> I'd like it to return:
>
> id name
> --- -------------------
> 1 George Handin
> 2 Joe Rachin
>
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