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Subject: | COALESCE could use some better examples |
Date: | 2022-10-13 14:28:23 |
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/functions-conditional.html
Description:
Regarding:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-conditional.html
I ran into a situation where COALESCE was used like this
```
SELECT * FROM table WHERE COALESCE(col_1, col_2, col_3) >= 5
```
and didn't understand how it worked, and the examples don't really help
because they only use COALESCE like
```
SELECT COALESCE(..)
```
I asked and answered a question on stackoverflow with a pretty good example
of this, you could consider adding to your page.
Thank you :))
Stackoverflow question link:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74057319/coalesce-in-postgresql-conditional-displaying-seemingly-undocumented-behavior
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