mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it (Ivan Sergio Borgonovo) wrote:
> Is there a way to declare variables and use IF in plain SQL, not in
> plpgsql inside stored procedures?
The forthcoming support for recursive queries using a WITH clause
might provide, after a fashion, a way to declare variables.
As for IF, there is a functional equivalent to it in the form of the
SQL standard CASE statement.
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