Re: Porting Oracle Decode to Postgresql

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, MindTerm wrote:

> I am writing to ask how to port oracle's decode( ..)
> function to postgresql ?

The ANSI SQL version of decode is CASE.

See http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?functions-conditional.html
for the full documentation, but basically, it works like this:

Oracle:
decode (value, 0, 'zero', 1, 'one', 'unknown')

ANSI:
CASE WHEN value=0 THEN 'zero' WHEN value=1 THEN 'one' ELSE 'unknown' END

or

CASE value WHEN 0 THEN 'zero' WHEN 1 THEN 'one' ELSE 'unknown' END

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Tod McQuillin